I\'ve set up my mailto links so that they open Gmail.
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// you can code a url like this to push things into gmail https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=c
The example URLs for standard gmail, above, return a google error.
The February 2014 post to thread 2583928 recommends replacing view=cm&fs=1&tf=1 with &v=b&cs=wh.