Webmail as default email client

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I know Yahoo has a little program that can setup yahoo mail as your
default mail client but are there any other programs or ways of
setting up other web based emails such as myway as your default mail
client?
 
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I know Yahoo has a little program that can setup yahoo mail
as your default mail client but are there any other
programs or ways of setting up other web based emails such
as myway as your default mail client?
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No, but you could set up a mail client using one of those
proxies that allow you to access webmail with a client.

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Christopher Jahn said:
No, but you could set up a mail client using one of those
proxies that allow you to access webmail with a client.
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Could you eleaborate on this?

benny
 
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Could you eleaborate on this?
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You can't use webmail directly because there is no way to make
Windows open a browser to a webpage and open a composition
window from clicking a mailto: link. This is because browsers
do not handle mail. For that you need a mail program, or
client.

But only a few mail clients can open a webmail service, and
those are usually proprietary: Netscape can access Netcenter
Webmail, and Outlook Express can access Hotmail. But they
can't access other web based mail services.
BUT there are programs that CAN do this. Hot@POP will let any
mail client open Hotmail, and it may support a few other web-
based mail portals. There are other such programs.
What the program REALLY does is this: your mail client asks
the program to access a web based mail portal: the program
access the web page, fills in the various blanks and clicks
the buttons, then "reads" the mail into an internal POP
server. The mail client then "downloads" the mail from that
"server".



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