

Firefox (Mac) - Changing the Default E-mail Program This document details the process for changing the program that Firefox will open when a mailto is. With a panoply of clever features and new ideas, these contenders. In Outlook Preferences, under General, you enable the Make Outlook the default application for e-mail, calendar, and contacts option.However, when you check the general preferences again, this option is not enabled. A recent surge of worthy new email clients offers Mac users some of the best choices they’ve ever had for managing their mail. To the right of mailto you should see your current default mailto client and a triangle indicating a drop down menu. In Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac running on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) or later versions, you cannot set Outlook as the default application. However, you might want to use a third party app, which provides extra functionality, or just works better for you. Look for Default email reader and click on the menu to pull down other mail app options if the mail app you want to use is not shown in this list choose Select to browse the /Applications/ folder and select one manually. For the most part, the default Mac apps work well enough. Pull down the Mail menu and choose Preferences.

Here's how: Launch Mail from your dock or the Finder. Mail is likely the default email app on your Mac, but just in case you have others downloaded, you can set the default reader. Yes, you have to start with Mail even if you want to configure a different email application as the default The Search for the Perfect Mac Desktop Gmail Client The Search for the Perfect. On OS X, open the Mail app and under Preferences > General, pick the email program that you want to set as the default using the Default email reader popup.
