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This feature request has 62 votes, and has been around since Zimbra 3.0. The Zimbra Team has been working insanely hard to finish up and polish Zimbra 5.0, and we weren’t able to fit this request into 5.0. Luckily, a member of the Zimbra Community has come to the rescue.

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We’ve had some great responses to my blog post yesterday about changing the default mailto links using Firefox. There’s a couple of problems with my method: 1) It’s not really scalable for an admin [ie no auto install] 2) Not really applicable for Safari and Internet Explorer.

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When you click on a mailto: link, most of the time your Firefox will launch that version of Outlook Express or Apple Mail you never configured. For the novice user, they click next, next, next, next, then send their e-mail…and it never gets delivered. Well using a greasemonkey script that we’ll convert to a firefox extension, we can handle the mailto links.

This morning, I clicked on a link thinking it would take me to a “Contact us” form, but it was a mailto: link. I was a little annoyed that Apple Mail opened, and I thought: I wonder if there’s a way to change that link to open ZCS?

Well, I found a cool little hack using GreaseMonkey and a site that compiles GreaseMonkey scripts to an xpi extension.

First, some pre-requisites:
You’ll need ZCS 4.5.0 or newer.
This is a Firefox only hack. Sorry IE and Safari users.

This is a GreaseMonkey script for GMail. All we’re going to do is change the URL from GMail to your ZCS server. The script is licensed under GPL, and if you use it, please note that you MUST abide by the coder’s License guidelines. The script was written by Julien Couvreur.

Copy all of the text to your favorite text editor.

Now, in your text editor, you’re going to change a few lines.

Change:
# // ==UserScript==
# // @name Mailto Compose In GMail
# // @namespace http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000238.html
# // @description Rewrites “mailto:” links to GMail compose links
# // @include *
# // @exclude http://gmail.google.com
# // ==/UserScript==

To:
# // ==UserScript==
# // @name Mailto Compose In Zimbra
# // @namespace http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000238.html
# // @description Rewrites “mailto:” links to Zimbra compose links
# // @include *
# // @exclude http://mail.domain.com
# // ==/UserScript==

**Replace https and mail.domain.com with your server name.

and Change:
mailtoLink.href = “https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0″ +
(emailTo ? (”&to=” + emailTo) : “”) +
(emailCC ? (”&cc=” + emailCC) : “”) +
(emailSubject ? (”&su=” + emailSubject) : “”) +
(emailBody ? (”&body=” + emailBody) : “”);
// mailtoLink.onclick = function() { location.href = newUrl; return false; };

To:
mailtoLink.href = “https://mail.server.com/zimbra/h/search?action=compose” +
(emailTo ? (”&to=” + emailTo) : “”) +
(emailCC ? (”&cc=” + emailCC) : “”) +
(emailSubject ? (”&subject=” + emailSubject) : “”) +
(emailBody ? (”&body=” + emailBody) : “”);
// mailtoLink.onclick = function() { location.href = newUrl; return false; };

**Be sure to replace https with http or https (depending on if you use SSL). Also, be sure to replace mail.server.com with your Zimbra server address.

Now, go to this website:
http://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/script-compiler

And fill in the text areas. Leave the GUID the same, and copy and paste your new script into the script text area, then hit compile.

It will ask you to save the xpi file. Once you save it, Open Firefox, then click file->Open and locate your XPI. Restart firefox, and all of your mailto: links now point to the Zimbra server.

Thanks and credit go to:
Julien Couvreur who wrote the script
Anthony Lieuallen for the web based GreaseMonkey to Firefox Extension converter
cubicgarden for the flickr GreaseMonkey photo.

Gmail™ webmail service is a registered trademark of Google, Inc.
Firefox is a registered trademark of Mozilla, Inc.
Also, these sites and scripts are not hosted or affiliated with Zimbra or Yahoo.

We’re happy to announce the availability of ZCS 4.5.10 for both Network Edition Customers and Open Source Edition users.

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As we get closer to the Release Candidate 2 of Zimbra, it’s time for another taste of what’s to come.

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We’re continuing our Webinar Higher Ed Series with “Deploying Zimbra on Campus- A Case Study of Best Practices and Lessons Learned”. I’m told that all of the slots are filling up fast, so you should register today to insure you’ve got a spot. It will be moderated by Matt Asay, noted open source strategist and CNET blogger and VP of Business Development for Alfresco. We also have several guest speakers.

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Whew! It has been a busy couple of weeks. We’re developing some awesome stuff that will amaze you. Hopefully in the coming weeks, we’ll post more on that.

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