How to mailto to office 365?

Question

How to mailto to office 365 like this one on the gmail - Open Gmail on mailto: action.

I have this link:

https://outlook.office365.com/owa/#viewmodel=IMailComposeViewModelFactory

but I have no idea for recipient parameter to put in the TO. Please help guys.

Here's how it do it in Gmail:

<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&[email protected]">[email protected]</a>

Now here's what i do in Office 365 but i dont know what is the right parameter for the Recipient:

<a href="https://pod51038.outlook.com/owa/#viewmodel=IMailComposeViewModelFactory">[email protected]</a>

Solution 1

Office 365 now supports composing an email using a URL:

https://outlook.office.com/?path=/mail/action/compose&[email protected]&subject=Customer Service Request&body=Add+Your+Request+here

available parameters:

• path /mail/action/compose
• subject Customer Service Request
• body Add your request here
• to [email protected]
• cc is not supported at this point.

See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/carloshm/2016/01/16/how-to-compose-a-new-message-or-event-and-populate-fields-in-office365/#comment-1645 for more details

Solution 2

This extension worked for me. I just had to edit the Outlook.com url by clicking on "change" and editing it to be something like:

https://outlook.office.com/owa/?realm=example.com&rru=compose&to={to}&subject={subject}&body={body}&cc={cc}

Where example.com should be replaced by your organizations Outlook 365 domain.

I should note that I am on Debian linux with no default email client set at the moment. However, I don't see how that might have any effect as I believe this extension might be simply altering the url that is opened to go to a different url. I could be wrong about this last part since I haven't looked into the extension code.

Solution 3

This cannot be done without using a 3rd party app or setting OWA as the default mail agent on the client computer. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/38d11e6d-8009-4d7d-8d69-a6701860feb8/setting-up-owa-to-be-used-by-mailto-protocol

Set OWA as default mail agent: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tmeston/archive/2004/01/08/48837.aspx

Comments

[guy mograbi]

did you ever figure it out?

[guy mograbi]

this thread suggests it is not feasible : community.office365.com/en-us/f/158/t/358769 dated July 2015..

[Ferri]

it works for me but after one second I lost my new mail screen and outlook 365 redirects to main outlook page

[Philippe]

Combine this answer with that article developers.google.com/web/updates/2012/02/… for a working mailto feature

[Kelderic]

This is no longer correct. It's been replaced with a new URL structure: outlook.office.com/mail/deeplink/compose