Jim the Geordie <
jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
In article <krxphk4e2c85$.dlg@v.nguard.lh>, V@nguard.LH says...
Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
My default email client is set to Thunderbird. However if I click on
an email in the notification panel in Wwindows (up to date), it opens
the email in Outlook. Can I prevent that happening?
Did you install Microsoft Outlook (probably as a component in MS
Office)? Or by "Outlook" do you mean the Mail app that is bundled in
Windows?
Is the toast (popup notification) created by Outlook (or Mail), or some
other program?
Without knowing the code sitting behind a notification, my guess is
Microsoft is not proposing a mailto: link in the notification, but is
using the URL:outlookmail scheme. Any program can define a URL scheme
(usually when it is installed, or by configuration option).
What opens when you create a mailto: link on the desktop (e.g.,
mailto:someone@somewhere.tld)? Create a shortcut, specify the mailto:
URL as the target, and then double-click on the mailto: shortcut. What
program opens to handle the mail send? That would show what is the
default mail handler *if* one were not specified by the URL scheme used.
That opens using Thunderbird
And what happens when you do the same using outlookmail: or ms-outlook:
as the URL scheme, as in:
outlookmail:
someone@somewhere.tld
That should open the Outlook program. A toast presented by the Outlook
program might use the outlookmail: protocol instead of mailto:.
Just what program is opening the toast (notification)? I would think
Tbird would use popup alerts, not Windows toasts. Considering
Thunderbird is cross-platform, seems odd they would even bother
supporting toasts which is a Windows thing. However, being
cross-platform does not obviate taking advantages of an OS over another.
You could disable Tbird using toasts. Then it will present popups. You
can then differentiate between alerts from Tbird as popups and whatever
other program is generating toasts (Windows notifications).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DgwAs9_RkY
timemark 1:17
Enable "Show alert" but disable "Use the system notification".
Why have Outlook generating toasts if you aren't going to use Outlook,
and want to use Thunderbird instead? I don't use Outlook to know if it
has a setting to disable notifications (not its popup alert box, but not
to use Windows notifications). I have Outlook installed as part of MS
365, but have yet to use it, so no accounts defined in it yet. When I
go to:
Settings -> Notifications
Outlook isn't listed as one I could switch off notifications. That
could be due to not yet configuring Outlook.
I find Windows notifications are unreliable. When they should show,
they sometimes don't. While my e-mail program can use either popup
alerts or Windows notifications, I grew weary of missing notifications
(never showed up, or already expired so they disappear), so I configured
my e-mail client to NOT use notifications, and instead use popup alerts.
Notifications only remain on screen for a short time. You can up the
show time to 5 seconds, 7 seconds, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, or
5 minutes. Even 5 minutes isn't very long when you are away from your
computer and return. You could be away for a lot longer than just 5
minutes.
https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/how_to_change_the_windows_10_notification_display_time.html
As I recall, you can edit a registry setting for a longer up-time on
toasts; however, Windows will ignore out-of-range values.
https://winaero.com/how-to-change-how-long-notifications-stay-in-windows-11/ Note: You cannot set the MessageDuration value lower than 5 or above
300. Windows 11 will simply ignore these out-of-range values.
Same for Windows 10. 5 minutes is too short. Yeah, it's a long time
when you're sitting at the computer, get the toast, and finish or get to
a pause point with whatever you're doing at the time to then address the notification, but often it takes a lot longer than 5 minutes to pause my
work, and I can be away from my computer for a lot longer than 5
minutes. I don't ever remember having a meeting that was under 5
minutes. Toasts are of value only when you're at the computer, and can interrupt whatever you're doing to switch to whatever the notification
is about. If I have to visit the notification panel to catch any toasts
that I missed, I might as well as load my e-mail client to check on new
mails, calendar events, etc.
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