[OPLINTECH] Gattach and Yattach Set Default mail in Windows

[JKENZIG]

It would also appear that the Yattach requires you have Yahoo Plus (paid
yahoo) so I guess the Gmail solution wins by default between the two.  

Jim

 

From: JKENZIG 
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:15 PM
To: OPLINTECH
Subject: RE: [OPLINTECH] Gattach and Yattach Set Default mail in Windows

 

And yes I know that you have been able to do this with windows live
hotmail for a long time.  : )

 

Jim Kenzig 
Network Manager 
Cuyahoga County Public Library 

 

 

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]
On Behalf Of JKENZIG
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:11 PM
To: OPLINTECH
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Gattach and Yattach Set Default mail in Windows

Here is a solution to the Mail a web page from the browser(or adobe)
problem that libraries may face where Patrons may want to mail a page
they are on to themselves for future reference.  Rather then having to
allow them to send mail from your own server you can set the default
mail client in Windows to be Yahoo or Gmail with the below two utilities
from Chris Wood. Then instruct your users to use their gmail or yahoo
account (whichever utility you choose to install) to send mail from.   I
picked up the tip on this from a twitter from Paul Thurrot.

The download and information page from Yattach to use Yahoo as the
default mail client is: 
http://chris.wood.name/yAttach/ <http://chris.wood.name/yAttach/>  

For Google Gmail it is: 
http://chris.wood.name/gAttach/ <http://chris.wood.name/gAttach/>  

The Yattach and Gattach add-ons allow you to send email via either Yahoo
or Gmail directly from 
Explorer 
Microsoft Office 
Adobe Acrobat 
Windows Photo Gallery 
Internet Explorer 
Firefox and more 

This allows you to remove any local email programs like Outlook and
Outlook Express to prevent users from saving and receiving emails
directly to your workstations.  

Drawback of course is that you have to encourage patrons to open a Yahoo
or Gmail account depending on which plug-in you load, meaning your
library has to commit to one or the other but it will reduce spam coming
into your domain if you do this. I tend to prefer Gmail over Yahoo
because it opens more types of attachments and lets you even view them
as a webpage if you like. I believe that Google has finally removed the
requirement to have a cell phone to sign up for a Gmail account making
it that much easier and having a Google ID allows you access to all of
the other Google Apps(writer, spreadsheet, etc) that your users will
benefit from anyways.  

Regards, 
Jim Kenzig 
Network Manager 
Cuyahoga County Public Library 

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