Re: How do you make yahoo email the default emailer?

March 23, 2008

Re: How do you make yahoo email the default emailer?

If you want to add Yahoo mail to Internet Options so you can choose it

to be your default email program without installing Yahoo Messenger do

the following.

download yammapi.dll and copy it to the following location.

C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common

If these folders do not exist you will have to create them.

Go to "programs", "accessories" and open "notepad". Then copy and paste

the information below starting at "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00"

to notepad and save it as a .reg file, such as yahoo.reg

Then double click on the .reg file you saved to add it to your

registry. Click ok to add it.

That's it. You will now have the option to choose Yahoo Mail as your

default email program.

doug

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo! Mail]

@="Yahoo! Mail"

"DLLPath"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\Yahoo!\\Common\\YMMAPI.dll"

"LocalizedString"="Yahoo! Mail"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo! Mail\DefaultIcon]

@="C:\\PROGRA~1\\Yahoo!\\Common\\YMMAPI.dll,-201"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo! Mail\InstallInfo]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo! Mail\Protocols]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo! Mail\Protocols\mailto]

@="URL:MailTo Protocol"

"EditFlags"=hex:02,00,00,00

"URL Protocol"=""