Using IMP in Windows with the Horde Framework
One of our clients uses the Horde application, IMP, to manage their email server (about 100 users from around the globe). IMP is one of the best web-based email clients available, and certainly has proven itself over the past six or seven years as an amazing application. It is stable, easy to setup, and very little training is required to teach users how to use the software.In the CVS archives of IMP is a registry file which allows the web-based IMP to become the default email application on a Windows machine. When a user clicks on an email address, Windows will launch the default email application for them to compose a new email message. Normally, this is not possible with a web based application. However, this particular registry file allows IMP to be used in exactly that capacity.
That file looks very much like this particular file:
--------------CUT HERE----------------
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]
@="Imp"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp]
@="IMP"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols\mailto]
"EditFlags"=hex:02,00,00,00
"URL Protocol"=""
@="URL:MailTo Protocol"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols\mailto\shell]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols\mailto\shell\open]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols\mailto\shell\open\command]
@="iexplore.exe -nohome www.example.com/webmail/imp/?actionID=login_compose&to=%1"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\shell]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\shell\open]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\shell\open\command]
@="iexplore.exe -nohome www.example.com/webmail/imp"
--------------CUT HERE----------------
However, this particular file needs a little bit of tweaking to work with Firefox, our preferred browser. A sample Firefox registry file looks like this:
--------------CUT HERE----------------
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]
@="Imp"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp]
@="IMP"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols\mailto]
"EditFlags"=hex:02,00,00,00
"URL Protocol"=""
@="URL:MailTo Protocol"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols\mailto\shell]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols\mailto\shell\open]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\Protocols\mailto\shell\open\command]
@="firefox.exe www.example.com/webmail/imp/?actionID=login_compose&to=%1"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\shell]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\shell\open]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Imp\shell\open\command]
@="firefox.exe www.example.com/webmail/imp"
--------------CUT HERE----------------
To use these files, copy between the "CUT HERE" lines into a file in notepad (or your favorite text editor), and save them as a .reg file. For instance, imp.reg. Then, right-click on the file, and choose "Merge". This will prompt you to make sure that you want to merge the file. Choose "Yes". You're all done!
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