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Launching Basic Mode for MailTo: links

Chris Whisonant  |    |  Tags:  default mail notes basic  |  Comments (5)
Someone sent me an email earlier today with an interesting question. Consider that you want to rollout Lotus Notes 8 Standard but only use the Basic configuration (let's consider that the computers only have 512MB RAM, but a memory upgrade will be deployed later). When doing this with Notes as the default mail application, the Standard configuration will be launched. How can you change this?
  1. Open the registry editor.
  2. Navigate to hkey_local_machine > software > clients > mail > lotus notes > protocols > mailto > shell > open > command
  3. The (Default) value is C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe -defini %1
  4. Right-click (Default) and choose "Modify"
  5. Change the value to C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe -sa -defini %1
  6. Open Internet Explorer and go to Tools > Internet Options > Programs
  7. Change the mail application to Outlook Express and click Apply
  8. Change the mail application back to Lotus Notes and click OK
  9. Click a mailto: link on a webpage and this will launch the Basic Configuration of Lotus Notes!
Note: I should have looked at the devWorks posting that the person sent me along with the email because the solution was (partly) posted there as a response. Over there the solution does not detail what you change the registry value to - just that you change it.

Also, as another addendum to the solution posted at devWorks, this will work with IE and Firefox (I presume it will also work with Opera or whatever else you may use...)

Comments

1 Nathan T Freeman      Permalink Sonuva...

That person asked me the SAME question when I was one foot out the door on a Friday evening. David... you're in trouble now! ;-)

Seriously, good catch on the IE thing. I walked him through making the change on Firefox as well. Hopefully the extra command line switch wasn't needed there.

2 David Jones      Permalink Originally I was just going to ask you where Chris was and to make him sign on IM but figured that mister NTF himself could easily answer the question, which you did. =)

I thanked you in the devWorks, that has to count for something, right? =)

3 Chris Whisonant      Permalink @Nathan - yes, sounds a little desperate... ;)

If you make the one registry change then it should work for all applications that use the send-to. As always, when you change the default application, you will have to close any open apps before that setting will take effect. After I made the registry change in testing, then "reset" the default mail app, I closed IE and FF and then opened both again and tested. The Basic Configuration was what opened.

@David - I was on Google Talk, just didn't have Sametime loaded. At least you got a quick response from Paul and Nathan and I got something I could actually blog about! ;)

4 David Jones      Permalink Odd, somehow you left my chat list on there so I sent another invitation.

I finally tried what you have here and it doesn't work for me. Any ideas?

5 Chris Whisonant      Permalink @David - that's odd about the chat list. Thanks for dumping me!! ;)

Ping me and we'll see what's up...


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