>Erik,
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>>What does your machine open if you send a mailto document to ShellExecute?
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>OE. It also opens when clicking mailto links while web browsing in IE. But if I click a mailto link while using Netscape it's mail client pops up instead.

How rude. I would venture to bet that Netscape doesn't care what your default mail client is when opening a mail window. But I was thinking (could be wrong) that mailto is a standard email type shell..

I am sure there has got to be a more reliable way to check the default client though...