How: Add Gmail to Win7 Send-To menu via Mail Receipient


  1. Posts : 35
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    How: Add Gmail to Win7 Send-To menu via Mail Recipient


    I am familiar with how to add things to Win7's 'Send To' context menu...

    I also understand that there is a difference between an email client such as outlook and thunderbird vs web mail (Gmail in my case).

    I am familiar with the mailto: tag on websites, etc...

    What I am trying to do is this: Be able to right-click on a file from within Windows Explorer and be able to select send-to and mail recipient and have that action open up my web browser with Gmail composing a new message with that file as an attachment...

    I realize that I can attach files from within Gmail...

    I'd just like to be able to initiate the process from Windows Explorer...

    I installed Google's Gmail Notifier but that didn't do anything to solve this problem...

    I ready about a program called Affixa (Affixa) but haven't installed it. Is that the only way to make this happen?

    I thought that if I create a shortcut to Gmail compose a new message, that might work... Any thoughts on how to do that or if it would work? I could then move the shortcut to the sendto folder (shell:sendto in windows explorer)...

    Thanks!
    Last edited by OldDogEyes; 04 Oct 2012 at 15:55.
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  2. Posts : 35
    Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
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    Ok, I figured out how to create a shortcut to Gmail Compose:

    https://mail.google.com/mail/#compose

    But putting that shortcut into the Send-To folder did nothing as it doesn't show up when I right-click and select Send-To ...

    Windows isn't seeing that as a 'destination' that it knows how to handle...
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  3. Posts : 53,365
    Windows 10 Home x64
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    Affixa seems to be the suggested method.

    Send File Attachment To Gmail via Windows Explorer Context Menu

    I also see where you can configure Outlook to use GMail.

    Outlook 2010: Attach & Send Large Files With Drop.io

    A Guy
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  4. Posts : 35
    Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
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    A Guy said:
    Affixa seems to be the suggested method.

    Send File Attachment To Gmail via Windows Explorer Context Menu

    I also see where you can configure Outlook to use GMail.

    Outlook 2010: Attach & Send Large Files With Drop.io

    A Guy
    I don't use Outlook... but will look at the other option...

    Was hoping to be able to do it without 3rd party software...
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  5. Posts : 53,365
    Windows 10 Home x64
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    It may be possible, I was just unable to find another method

    A Guy
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  6. Posts : 1
    Windows 8 Pro 64bit
       #6

    Don't know if you still have this problem.....at the top of my head, if you do a shortcut to "mailto:" and Gmail is your default mailto handler, it should work.
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