The following is about how churches that use Google Apps,
can email directly out of FellowshipOne by clicking on emails links, without
having to copy the email link first and paste it into the "To:" box.
I don't know how many churches use google apps, but it's
quite nice. We use Google Apps Education
edition, which is free for non-profits and includes all the goodies that Google
normally only provides for schools, like unlimited 7 gig inboxes with no advertisements
and other great features.
I thought I'd post this since it makes emailing people a lot
easier within Fellowship One. I had to
go around and add this feature to our user's browsers, about 2/3's of our staff
love just using web base email, while a third still choose to use Outlook and
will not have this problem.
I'm sorry if the directions are a little complicated, I
copied some of it off the web and also added to it.
Also, this only works in Firefox, with Google Toolbar
installed.
First make sure your google toolbar is installed and is used
for mailto items. To check this, on the
tool bar click over on the far right on: "Settings, then click on "Options",
then click on the "More" Tab, then below click on "Send with Gmail".
After the Google Toolbar is configured to use "Mailto"
links, follow the next options:
1. Enter "about:config" into Firefox's address bar
(without quotes). Agree that you won't
mess things up by click on "I'll be Careful, I promise!"
2. Under Filter start typing "google.toolbar.mailto.providers.Gmail"
and double-click this preference.
3. Enter the following text into the text field:
firetool-mail:https://mail.google.com/hosted/mychurch.org/?ui=1&view=cm&fs=1@to=to&subject=su&body=body&cc=cc&bcc=bcc&name=gmail
(make sure there is
no spaces in the syntax, or it will not work)
4. Replace "mychurch.org" with your Apps domain
name. Then close out.
In my tests, it works flawlessly with XP and Vista and works
with all email links
Hope this is helpful,
Todd