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Jun 25, 2004

g-mailto bookmarklet

Following the lead of Rabid Squirrel's g-mailto, I worked up a bookmarklet to pop up a new message window off my browser toolbar. I've only tested this on IE6 for Windows, but it's the standard javascript stuff, so it should work everywhere. Here you go...

» Drag this link to your toolbar: g-mailto

If you read the Rabid Squirrel definition of field variables (to, cc, bcc, subject, body, etc.) you could probably modify the link above to fit your particular email needs. I haven't yet mucked about to see if it's possible to pull page titles or selected text from the browser and force it into message fields, but if that's possible the bookmarklet could become a great way to have the "send page by email" function via Gmail.

Update. Lazyweb to the rescue! The ever-resourceful Adam Mathes hacked up an improvement that pulls the current page's title and inserts into the subject line, inserts the page URL and any selected text into the body of the message. You can grab it here, or just do the drag thing again...

» Drag this link to your toolbar: g-mailit

I've got both of these living side by side now. One for quick access to a blank message (g-mailto), the other for "mail this page" functionality (g-mailit).

Enjoy.

Comments

db

The gmailit bookmarklet was updated due to a Gmail change apparently..

Posted by: db | Aug 17, 2004 at 02:42 AM

Sloejack

For whatever it's worth, your gmail bookmarklet does not appear to work. With some tinkering, I was able to get this version to work:

javascript:void(open('https://gmail.google.com/gmail?view=cm&tearoff=1&fs=1','gmail', 'toolbar=no,width=700,height=700'));

Posted by: Sloejack | Aug 28, 2004 at 10:12 AM

shr1n1

Does not work witrh Firefox 0.92 or 0.93

Posted by: shr1n1 | Sep 09, 2004 at 09:58 AM

Sharath

hey Hi,
I use mozilla 1.7.1 . the appl dosent seem to work. A pop up appears once I click it and nothing really happens.
Can you help me.
Sharath S

Posted by: Sharath | Sep 16, 2004 at 12:01 PM

Sam Krupa

Cool bookmarklet! Thanks for putting time aside to work on it!

Posted by: Sam Krupa | Sep 30, 2004 at 10:13 AM

Big Mel

gmailit bookmarklet stopped working due to a change in GMail - any chance of an update?

Posted by: Big Mel | Jan 11, 2005 at 05:09 AM

Ankit

how can i get a Gmail Account........?

Posted by: Ankit | Jan 30, 2005 at 12:25 AM

db

Lazyweb's 'send page' bookmarklet did not work either. I combined db's compose-fix and Lazyweb's send-page code, but it only pulls the page title into the subject line. I couldn't get the ability to also copy the URL into the body of the message to work. Still useful I suppose:

» Drag this link to your toolbar: g-mailit

Posted by: db | Mar 27, 2005 at 10:56 AM

Julien Couvreur

I just posted a GreaseMonkey script that might interest you. It converts "mailto:" links to gmail compose urls.
http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/images/MailtoComposeInGMail.user.js

Posted by: Julien Couvreur | Mar 28, 2005 at 05:10 PM

Gmail software

It's not working anymore for me. Are there any new versions?

Posted by: Gmail software | Jan 25, 2007 at 08:12 AM

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