Common scenario: Mailto link starting Lotus Notes instead of Outlook

Consider a practical scenario where clicking Mailto links, Lotus Notes gets started instead of MS Outlook. Reason behind this erroneous behavior is attributed to setting of Lotus Notes as the default mail program in Internet Explorer, or in the Mailto protocol, or in the Notes.ini file. This issue doesn’t threaten a user with MS Outlook and therefore, converting notes to pst is the best option to resolve this issue.

However, there are some more ways to resolve this issues. To resolve it the other way, you need to perform the following steps accordingly.

• Ensure that the program options are set correctly in Microsoft Internet Explorer to start Outlook.

• Ensure that the Mailto protocol is set correctly to start Outlook.

• Ensure that the Notes.ini file is set correctly to start Outlook.

if above points are taken care of then this problem of Mailto link starting Lotus Notes instead of MS Outlook gets resolved easily, without creating fuss around.

If you feel an urge of changing email environment from Lotus Notes to MS Outlook or Exchange Server, then you can do so easily by migrating all your .NSF files to .PST files and can start afresh with MS Outlook as your email client.

Kernel for Lotus Notes to PST is powerful and effective email migration software to convert all Notes .NSF file to Outlook .PST files in most accurate and convenient manner.

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