Re: How to make Opera mail interface default "without using the opera browser"

["Rijk van Geijtenbeek"]

On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:07:25 +0100, V S Rawat wrote:

> It is a new question.
>
> How do I make Opera's mail client as my default mail client for
> my pc, WITHOUT MAKING OPERA BROWSER MY DEFAULT BROWSER.

For a couple of reasons, using Opera as default mail client doesn't work  
very well. Mainly because it lacks MAPI support, so 'Sent to > Mail  
client' in your file manager doesn't work with Opera.

> The option in preferences speaks only about making the browser
> the default one for the system. I guess that also makes the mail
> client the default.

No. This will only make Opera the default handler for the http and https  
protocols, html and xml files, and url shortcuts. 'default browser' does  
of course not include 'default mail client'.

> But I want to continue using my existing
> browser (Crazy Browser 2.0.1) on my system. Only that I want
> Opera mail client to replace Thunderbird 1.0 as default for my
> pc.
>
> How to do it?

If you open the 'details' dialog, you get detailed options. This includes  
making Opera the handler for the 'mailto'-protocol.

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