URL to compose email in the new Inbox by Gmail

Question

I'm a big fan of being one click (bookmarks bar link) away from composing a Gmail email. Now that things have moved over to Inbox by Gmail, the link no longer works.

I used to use this url https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#compose and I actually just figured out that I can hack the old link to still work with this link https://mail.google.com/mail/?ibxr=0#compose

Anyone know what the new proper link is for Inbox?

Answer 1

You can do it with "https://inbox.google.com/?mailto=mailto%3A" or with an address at the end if you use something like Alfred to dynamically fill a value "https://inbox.google.com/?mailto=mailto%[email protected]"

Answer 2

The Inbox compose URL allows to specify the to, cc, bcc, subject and body query parameters. None of them is mandatory. An invalid field will be ignored, but no error will be raised.

See the url below for a complete example:

https://inbox.google.com/?to={to}&cc={cc}&bcc={bcc}&subject={subject}&body={body}

PS: On a side note, this could be useful to configure Inbox as the default email client for Safari on macOS. See this response for more details.