How to Compose Direct Mail from Address Bar - Gmail

May I ask you something, How many daily emails do you write? Want to know how to compose mail really fast? Whenever you decide to mail someone you need 3 steps; first Open mailing site then waits to load your inbox and click on compose button. But there is a much better way which skips these steps and directly goes to composing step. If you looking for, how to hack google chrome to compose an email directly from the address bar or how you can compose new emails straight from chrome's address bar then you arrived at the right page. The Google chrome browser is one of the best and a favorite browser with lots of innovation in chrome addon. Especially for the Chrome users & with the Gmail accounts, opening and sending emails becomes easy process. Here, you just need to type your shortcut into the address bar shown below and for sending, you need to click on send, that's all. Learn how to quickly compose a new email message directly from address bar.
How to Compose Direct Mail from Address Bar mailto:

In previous article we have seen how to Remove Large Size Emails from Gmail for More Space and today we are going one step ahead. This article is important to follow for those who want to compose mail as quick as possible.

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How to Compose Direct Mail from Address Bar

  1. Go to address bar in your browser
  2. Type "mailto:"
  3. Hit enter

Or drag this button    Direct Mail    to your bookmark bar, hit it whenever you need to compose a massage to send.

Troubleshoot

By default this trick opens your default mail sending program. So you need to set your default mail sending program to Gmail; How to?
  1. Go to: start >> All programs >> Default Programs >>
  2. Set program access and computer defaults >>
  3. Choose Custom & then set it as per your requirement.

If there is no option for Chrome, then How to?
  1. Download Gmail Notifier >> Right click on its icon in system tray >> Option >>
  2. Choose Use Gmail for Internet mailto: links >> Hit OK.

Allow site handler request to open mailto: links directly into your mail, How to?
  1. Chrome setting >> Show advanced setting >> Privacy >> Content Setting >>
  2. Handlers >> Manage Handlers >> Remove mailto if its not working for chrome.

Now set handler for chrome; How to?
  1. In chrome when you go to Gmail, a protocol handler icon Protocol Handler ProBlogBooster appeared in the address bar.
  2. It only appeared only if you removed related handlers from Chrome.
  3. Click on it >> Choose Use Gmail.

And then onwards your all Internet mailto: links will open in Gmail program by default.


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