Solved If Vivaldi Mail is Disabled, Allow Custom Mailto Handlers in Settings

[devast8tor]

For those of us who don't want or need Vivaldi Mail, please stop hard-coding the use of MailTo to Vivaldi Mail and expose the ability to set custom MailTo handlers when Vivaldi Mail is disabled.

Sending mailto: links to a splash page that asks me to enable Vivaldi mail is not helpful.

[pafflick]

This is possible now in Vivaldi 5.7.

[gmg]

@devast8tor
Do you have this setting turned on in the Mail Settings?

[devast8tor]

I have no mail settings. I am assuming this is because I have mail, calendar, and feeds explicitly disabled?

[gmg]

@devast8tor

1. What version of Vivaldi are you running?
   Can visit vivaldi://about to see the version

2. And what operating system?

3. Is the default mailto program not already set?

[devast8tor]

Hey @gmg,

I am currently using 5.5.2805.44 (Stable channel) in Classic Mode on Win 11 Pro 22H2. I do not want to use the Mail, Calendar, or Feeds features bundled with Vivaldi.

The default mailto program in Windows is set to Vivaldi.

To repro, visit: chrome://settings/handlers. The default options displayed are only to allow or disallow sites to handle protocols.

After some forum research and trial-and-error, I was able to hand-hack my preferences file to set the mailto handler to gmail with custom_handlers JSON in the Preferences file.

"custom_handlers":{"enabled":true,"ignored_protocol_handlers":[],
"registered_protocol_handlers":[{"default":true,"protocol":"mailto",
"url":"https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&extsrc=mailto&url=%s"}]}

Prior to this Mail, Calendar, Feeds functionality being added to Vivaldi, this used to be as simple as enabling the protocol handler directly on Gmail's webpage...

[pafflick]

This is possible now in Vivaldi 5.7.