Comments on: Google Apps e-mail with Google Toolbar

By: calisota

calisota — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:48:09 +0000

Thanks Stefano Savanelli for the Google Apps Button for email. However the button keeps disappearing. I’m using Firefox and usually when I close FF and reopen, the button has disappeared. Anyone else experiencing this issue?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:35:37 +0000

Also found this link for how to get mailto links to work with Google Apps. Not tested it yet, will do ASAP though. Just writing it here to remind myself
http://techblog.appirio.com/2008/08/defaulting-your-mailto-links-to-google.html

Tested it. Make sure to disable Google Toolbar handling mailto links, it seems to block the process otherwise.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:25:20 +0000

@Stefano Savanelli
Super awesome. I’ve updated the main post to include a link to the Google Code page with your button.

By: Stefano Savanelli

Stefano Savanelli — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:49:39 +0000

The solutions is in
http://code.google.com/p/gtb-gmail-apps-button/
Simply use the link: Install Gmail Apps Button
http://toolbar.google.com/buttons/add?url=http://gtb-gmail-apps-button.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gtb-gmail-apps-button.xml

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:07:47 +0000

Thanks for the help! In the current version of Firefox I could not get the fire-tool value to work as you have suggested. Just in case anyone else is having the same problem, “firetool-mail:https://mail.google.com/a/MYDOMAIN.COM?view=cm&fs=1@to=to&subject=su&body=body&cc=cc&bcc=bcc&name=Gmail” ended up working for me just fine.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:18:25 +0000

Brian, you are the man!

thanks for putting this out there….
SUPER HELPFUL!!!

thanks again.

By: Caro

Caro — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:46:37 +0000

Hi I am stuck here,

Open about:config and locate “google.toolbar.mailto.providers.Gmail” (filtering by “gmail” makes it easier to find).

where do i find this file????

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:22:56 +0000

Hi,

This is fantastic! Has anyone worked out how to do it in Internet Explorer? I have an old non-techie family member who would not cope well with me switching him over firefox…

It looks like it is controlled in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Toolbar\ but I can’t crack it!

Thanks,

Gabriel

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:43:42 +0000

@Roger
Just add the “&tf=1″ variable to the URL, that should do the trick (I’ve revised the article to include this. Formatted it a bit better while I was at it

@Andre
Unless I’m missing something, and if I am please enlighten me, what you’re referring to is not “logging into the Google services with Google Apps account”. You’re just creating a new Google account using the e-mail address from your Google Apps. It’s 2 separate accounts that just happens to share the same e-mail address.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:32:49 +0000

Brian, this is very close fix to the problem us Google Apps users are having with Google not supporting their paying customers with a proper toolbar. After setting every thing up as you have shown, when clicking the window, it opens another tab that has the full Gmail (Google apps) home page showing with the folders, labels, and such. I was hoping it would just be the small compose window, or even the full tab, but just the compose. I’ve found a add-on called Email This! that lets you use google apps to email webpages, and it only opens the compose window, albeit in a full tab. Any chance you could refine your about:config mod to accomplish this? Only because if it’s the full Gmail page with a compose window, you compose your email, then click send, a small message on top says “Your message has been sent. View message”, then disappears after a bit without closing the compose window. It’s confusing if you come back to that window, click send again, now you’ve sent two messages. Email This! blanks the page and has the message, so there’s no mistake.

Thanks for your work, hope you have time to look at this!!