Set vivaldi email as default email app for win10 ?

[teots]

I am using win10 20H2 without any email client therefore
the default email app is empty. I wonder if there is anyway
to set my default email app as vivaldi built in email so that
vivaldi built in email will be recognize as the default email app in win10 ?

[Pesala]

@teots Windows, Settings, Default Apps, Set by Protocol, MAILTO:

[teots]

Thanks for your quick reply, followed your instructions
but can only see url: ftp, url: http and url: https. There is no
url: mailto for me to select. Is my OS unnormal ?

[Ayespy]

@teots Windows 10 has to first have recognized some default email app at some point in time, before it will have it in registry to offer it to you. Then, Vivaldi has to be installed in a manner that permits it to be recognized as a default app of any kind (such as browser).

So first Win10 has to know that there are default mail apps, and has to know Vivaldi can be a default app.

THEN you can make Vivaldi the default MAILTO handler.

This will NOT make it the default mail app for windows. At present, that is not possible. For instance, you cannot make Windows open an .eml file as a recognizable email in Vivaldi. It will only open as a page of text strings. Further, if you select "send by email" via context menu in any program in Windows at all, it will not open Vivaldi in response to that, or send that content to Vivaldi. Vivaldi is not currently structured in a fashion which would permit Windows to recognize it as a mail client, or for it to handle files like a mail client, even if Windows did.

This is a goal in Vivaldi, and they certainly want to accomplish that - for Vivaldi to be as much a Windows-recognized and Windows-functional email client as, say, Thunderbird, MailBird or EMClient can be. But at present, it's not an option.

[Ayespy]

@teots In the meantime, if you have the Vivaldi mail client open, you can attach and send anything you want, or do pretty much anything inside it that mail clients do - even save an email as a file on your local drive.

[teots]

@ayespy said in Set vivaldi email as default email app for win10 ?:

@teots Windows 10 has to first have recognized some default email app at some point in time, before it will have it in registry to offer it to you. Then, Vivaldi has to be installed in a manner that permits it to be recognized as a default app of any kind (such as browser).

So first Win10 has to know that there are default mail apps, and has to know Vivaldi can be a default app.

THEN you can make Vivaldi the default MAILTO handler.

This will NOT make it the default mail app for windows. At present, that is not possible. For instance, you cannot make Windows open an .eml file as a recognizable email in Vivaldi. It will only open as a page of text strings. Further, if you select "send by email" via context menu in any program in Windows at all, it will not open Vivaldi in response to that, or send that content to Vivaldi. Vivaldi is not currently structured in a fashion which would permit Windows to recognize it as a mail client, or for it to handle files like a mail client, even if Windows did.

This is a goal in Vivaldi, and they certainly want to accomplish that - for Vivaldi to be as much a Windows-recognized and Windows-functional email client as, say, Thunderbird, MailBird or EMClient can be. But at present, it's not an option.

Understood. Outllok and edge has been remove from my modified win10 so there is no url:mailto. Currently i totally relies on vivaldi for internet and email tasks.
Anyway it's not important that vivaldi email can't be set
as default email app.

BTW, why is there no option for multi-quote for the forum ?

[Ayespy]

@teots said in Set vivaldi email as default email app for win10 ?:

BTW, why is there no option for multi-quote for the forum ?

Beats me. Possibly some limitation in the NodeBB software.

[Pathduck]

@teots Did you install Vivaldi as Standalone? If you do it won't register as a default app for stuff like mail. This might also apply to Single-user install, not sure.

I certainly can have Vivaldi as email handler in Win10, never checked if it actually works though. I think all browser install themselves as possible email handlers if installed the right way, i.e. not portable obviously.

The same for mailto protocol:

[Ayespy]

@pathduck There is an option, when installing standalone, to cause Vivaldi to register itself as a possible default app.

[Pathduck]

@ayespy Oh yeah, that's right. I don't think it's selected by default though, or is it? At least for me it remembers what was selected last, i.e. no default app.

[Ayespy]

@pathduck No, definitely not selected by default.