{"id":4832,"date":"2010-07-14T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps4rent.com\/support\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2013-05-29T02:53:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T06:53:43","slug":"how-to-change-the-default-e-mail-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/kb\/article\/how-to-change-the-default-e-mail-program","title":{"rendered":"How to change the default e-mail program in Microsoft Internet Explorer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>default program<\/strong><\/span> is one that is designated by the user or by another program to be used for a certain action. Internet Explorer allows you to select a default e-mail program to handle e-mail links. Once you have configured your software to make Yahoo! Webmail your default email program, clicking on an email address link will open the Webmail interface directly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua';\">How to change the default e-mail program?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua';\">A common issue with Microsoft Internet Explorer is controlling the e-mail program used when you click on a mail address on a web page. If it&#8217;s not set correctly, you may get a &#8220;Can&#8217;t create object&#8221; error message. Thus, the easiest way to set the default e-mail program is to use the Internet applet in Control Panel or choose <strong>View | Internet Options<\/strong> in MSIE. On the <strong>Programs<\/strong> tab, select the program you want to use from the <strong>Mail<\/strong> list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua';\">If you don&#8217;t see a change, even after restarting MSIE or restarting Windows, then you can make this change manually. In Windows Explorer, choose <strong>View | Options<\/strong>. On the <strong>File Types<\/strong> tab, you&#8217;ll need to edit the Open event for &#8220;URL:MailTo Protocol.&#8221; Sample entries are as follows, for different Microsoft e-mail programs:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua';\">Adjust the path to Mailnews.dll or Outlook.exe as needed to match your own system.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua';\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Internet Mail and News:<\/span> <\/strong>rundll32.exe C:\\Windows\\System\\Mailnews.dll,Mail_RunDLL<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua';\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Outlook Express<\/span><\/strong>: &#8220;C:\\Program Files\\Outlook Express\\Msimn.exe&#8221; \/mailurl:%1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua';\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Windows Messaging or<\/strong><\/span>: rundll32.exe url.dll,MailToProtocolHandler &#8220;%1&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> Microsoft Exchange<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua';\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Microsoft Outlook<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\Outlook.exe&#8221; -c IPM.Note \/m &#8220;%1&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A default program is one that is designated by the user or by another program to be used for a certain action. Internet Explorer allows you to select a default e-mail program to handle e-mail links. Once you have configured your software to make Yahoo! Webmail your default email program, clicking on an email address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,108],"tags":[174,175],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exchange","category-internet-explorer","tag-default-e-mail-program","tag-microsoft-internet-explorer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}