How To Set Default Email Program For Crome On Mac
The default mail program is the software that is registered with your operating system as the software that is to handle mailto URL's. When another application wants to send an email, it looks up the default and passes the email to the default mail program.
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On the Programs tab, click Select Programs to open the Set Default Programs dialog. Click the top link then find Outlook in the list of programs. Click the top link then find Outlook in the list of programs. Set Gmail as default email client in Chrome Browse to Gmail, find the double diamond shaped icon in the search bar at the top of your browser, and click it. After clicking the diamond icon, you’ll be prompted to allow Gmail to become the mail handler. The Mailto Chrome extension can make most webmail services your default mail client in Chrome. If you want to use a service other than Gmail, install the Mailto: extension from the Chrome Web Store.
Use the following steps to change the default mail program in Mac OS X:
Open the Mail application from the Applications folder.
Click on the Mail menu and select Preferences...
Click the General button. If you don't see the General button, click on the small oval in the upper right corner to reveal it.
Select a new default mail program from the Default Email Reader menu (e.g. Thunderbird, Entourage).
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Mail is set as the default email program on our Mac, so when we happen to click on an email link in anything (say, our browser), the Mail app automatically opens up and creates an email message. We don’t want that, we’d like to be able to designate our chosen email apps (I use Thunderbird, she uses Entourage). How do you change this?
While there’s a lot about Mac OS X that I think is wonderfully crafted, changing the default email program (or Web browser, for that matter) is pretty baffling. In the old days, there was a separate Control Panel for changing all these settings, but now you need to know the trick…
For changing your default email program, it turns out you need to launch the Mail.app program just once to get to its Preferences panel.
When you start it up, the program will step you through the configuration steps, but you don’t have to finish these steps, just go step-by-step until the Preferences option on the Mail menu isn’t greyed out.
Once you can get to the Preferences, here’s what you’ll see:
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The topmost element is what you want to change: pick the mailer you’d prefer as your default email handler (You can see that I use Microsoft Entourage, not Apple Mail). Click the little red button on the top left to close the window and quit Mail without finishing up the configuration steps.
That’s all there is to it.
If you wanted to change your default Web browser, by the way, Apple Safari has a similar option on its Preferences pane, in the “General” area. Why it’s not a part of the “Network” Control Panel, or even its own Control Panel, escapes me completely. Wouldn’t that be easier?