Comments on: Make Gmail your Default Desktop Email Client (Windows)

By: kestrel

kestrel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:15:03 +0000

Corporate domain does not seem to work with this gattach application…kept saying there was error in communication

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By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:51:59 +0000

Wow, thanks much for this. I’ve been using this Vista Sidebar Gadget that i LOVE except that it wouldn’t open up Gmail in my browser. This has fixed the problem and now it’s PERFECT. Thanks!

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By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:41:57 +0000

See comment above. It appears that the name and website has changed: http://www.affixa.com/

Alternatively, you can download gAttach! here: http://download.cnet.com/gAttach/3000-2367_4-10861891.html

Hope that works.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:36:20 +0000

The gattach link doesn’t work. Where can we get it. I’d like to try it. Thanks for the info.

By: RanMan

RanMan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:28:53 +0000

Thanks for the updated info. Going to try and convince the wife to give it a try.

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:41:20 +0000

Thanks for the heads up!

By: Itlan

Itlan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:51:51 +0000

The website has changed. A Basic version is available at http://www.affixa.com/

By: Vertx

Vertx — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:19:33 +0000

much thanks for the firefox info!

By: Maxwell

Maxwell — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:16:39 +0000

Very cool tool. We want to move to Google Apps (and Gmail), but some our of business accounting software requires a desktop email client to send out reports and documents. I realize that we could install an email client on each desktop, but it kind of misses the whole point.

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:29:12 +0000

@ Shreela
Yes, managing several eMail accounts or even several Gmail accounts is possible with Thunderbird. I’ve been doing just that for several years.

However, using a desktop mail client or not is a matter or preference. Many people don’t want to download their eMail to a local computer, even though they use the same computer most of the time. There are many possible reasons why, we don’t need to discuss that here. Anyways, this tool covers a niche for these people.

By: Shreela

Shreela — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:35:30 +0000

Why not just add gmail’s pop3/smtp to Thunderbird (or whichever email client)? I only use one gmail acct, but I imagine additional gmail accounts could be added as well.

By: Ran Man

Ran Man — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:11:29 +0000

I appreciate you explaining how you can access the feature via Firefox because I am a recent user of Firefox. However, what I am unclear of is how does Firefox determine which gmail account you want to use ? I have several and it always defaults to the same account name. It would be nice to know whether multiple accounts can be accessed for Mailto or if it can be changed on the fly.

Thanks BTW I am still going to try gAttach to see if any additional benefits are available.

Ran Man

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:29:38 +0000

Thanks, glad you can make use of our site

@ Tina – thanks for this really useful tip. The abilit to send file to my Gmail compose window via right click menu is simply AWESOME!

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By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:48:14 +0000

It works pretty well; may be a keeper…

I’d rather have it send the email to my Inbox; I know I’ll forget to check my Drafts folder.

Also, I’d love it if I could send a simple text email to my account w/out having to open a text editor, save the file, and then r-click it & send-to Mail Recipient.

By: venkat

venkat — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:00:57 +0000

@srihari that makes quick access to Gmail not replace outlook.makes Gmail default Web mail program

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:41:50 +0000

Thanks for all the feedback everyone!

@ Shrihari
Thank you for sharing, I didn’t know that! (I’m not using Google Toolbar).

Kudos to Mark for telling me about the following one:
In Firefox there actually is the option to have all mailto links open in Gmail.
Go to >Tools >Options >Applications tab and type >mailto into the >Search field. Do NOT hit enter, the matching selection will appear automatically. You can select an action for mailto links in the >Action drop-down menu. You can set it to open Gmail, but it also works for Yahoo! Mail and others.

By: venkat

venkat — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:10:45 +0000

Great work tina awesome post very useful to Gmail users.It is annoying whenever we click email link on a document or website it opens Outlook we got out through this .Thanks Tina.

By: Shrihari

Shrihari — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:59:26 +0000

Actually there is an option in Google Toolbar that lets you open “mailto:” links in Gmail itself rather than your desktop email client…

By: Regina

Regina — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:52:20 +0000

Yours is one of my favorite sites. It is one of the most informative and useful. Thank you. Regina

By: Susie

Susie — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:15:15 +0000

This was an incredibly useful post, and I’m going to share with everyone I know who uses GMail. Thanks so much! Also… I’d like to say, MakeUseOf.com is my absolute favorite site… and I read it first thing every morning!

By: jollyrogue

jollyrogue — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:21:28 +0000

brilliant.. its just what i needed.