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I would like to see a feature in out look that traps setup links from web
pages. There are tons of websites that provide email accounts and have a
section on their site "how to setup your email" or something similar. They
ask you to pick your product then to go through a number of steps to add your
email account. Anyone who has used mIRC should recognize a link that looks
like irc://irc.server.com/#mychannel. This link opens mIRC, connects to that
server, and joins the channel. Outlook should have a similar feature.
Something like
emailaccount://user[
assword]@pop.server.com;smtp.server.com?authsmtp=true&sslpop=995
would be ideal. Then when a webmaster wants to explain how to setup your
email they need only make a link that you click. Ideally the link would send
the info to whatever the default email program is (leave it up to other
companies to process the link if they want to...) When outlook recieves the
link it should ask for their full name, username, and password if they
weren't in the link and regardless confirm the request to add a new account
before adding it. Another nice thing to include would be if the webmaster
doesn't want to put the username and password into the link offer the choice
of including the domain ( @server.com ) or requiring that the email address
be the username (for multi domain email servers)
pages. There are tons of websites that provide email accounts and have a
section on their site "how to setup your email" or something similar. They
ask you to pick your product then to go through a number of steps to add your
email account. Anyone who has used mIRC should recognize a link that looks
like irc://irc.server.com/#mychannel. This link opens mIRC, connects to that
server, and joins the channel. Outlook should have a similar feature.
Something like
emailaccount://user[
assword]@pop.server.com;smtp.server.com?authsmtp=true&sslpop=995would be ideal. Then when a webmaster wants to explain how to setup your
email they need only make a link that you click. Ideally the link would send
the info to whatever the default email program is (leave it up to other
companies to process the link if they want to...) When outlook recieves the
link it should ask for their full name, username, and password if they
weren't in the link and regardless confirm the request to add a new account
before adding it. Another nice thing to include would be if the webmaster
doesn't want to put the username and password into the link offer the choice
of including the domain ( @server.com ) or requiring that the email address
be the username (for multi domain email servers)