Mac Os X Set Default Mail App

12.08.2020
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Jul 26, 2018  Change your default email app. Choose Preferences from the Mail menu, then click General. Or, if you're prompted to set up an email account, add your account, then choose. Choose your email app from the ”Default email reader” pop-up menu. Mar 14, 2016  Open Apple Mail. Go to General Preferences; Click on Button beside Default Email Reader. Change to Outlook. Disclaimer: The questions, discussions, opinions, replies & answers I create, are solely mine and mine alone, and do not reflect upon my position as a Community Moderator.

Earlier, in Apple’s OS when you wished to change Mac OS X default browser i.e Safari; you needed to open Safari to make changes as browser settings reside there itself. Thus for OS-Level settings you had to open a browser to change them. But with Yosemite OS X to change Mac OS X default browser and Email client, one needs to go to settings in system preferences.

However, apple has a habit of not fixing all the problems in one version so they have left out email client this time. If we wish to change email client we have to go into “Mail” app. But anticipations are high that Apple’s will come with some rightful place for this soon. So here are the steps on Nintendo switch app pro controller mac.

How To Change Mac OS X Default Browser:

  • Go to System Preferences(if you are unable to figure it out, then look in Apple’s menu).
  • Then Click on “General” tab the first option under System Preferences here
  • Click on “Default Web Browser” pop-up menu and change Mac OS X default browser to your choice.
  • Sometimes, if you have any apps installed on your mac which opens as a web page but is not web browsers, it will also appear in the drop-down of default web browser list. e.g Evernote listed below is not a web browser but can be seen in the image below.

Now select the browser of your choice for example “Google Chrome” and enjoy surfing the internet.

Now it’s time to change the default Email client in Mac OS X after Changing Mac OS X Default Browser from Safari to any other browser. Here are the steps on-

Default Apps On Mac

How To Change Mac’s Default Email Client

  • Go To Apple’s “Mail “App and Choose “Preferences” from Mail menu.
  • Then Click on”General” tab and look down for pop-menu labelled “Default email reader”, select the email client of your choice.

And select any Email service of your choice, if you have any.

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Mail client Mail.app in macOS is pretty good, but many users prefer to work with alternative applications, such as, for example, Spark.

In this small instruction I will explain how to set default Mail client on Mac to alternative application.

Setting Default Mail Client on Mac

Mac Os Default Mail App

As such an alternative client, choose the already mentioned Spark, but this is just an example – you can use the application that you like.

Read more:How to Mark All E-mails as Read?

Mac Os X Set Default Mail App Download

So, let’s take as initial data that Spak is already downloaded from the Mac App Store and installed on your computer with macOS or OS X:

  • Start the regular Mail application (yes, you need to start it, although you want to assign another program as default);
  • In the top menu, select Mail -> Preferences;
  • Then go to the General tab;
  • Find the Default email reader drop-down menu;
  • Open the list of applications and select the necessary (in our case this is Spark);
  • If the application does not appear in the list, but it is installed on your computer, click on Select and manually select the application in the window that opens (Spark);
  • Choosing Spark and click Select ;
  • Close the Mail settings window, close the Mail application.
  • Done!

Conclusion

Mac Os X Mail Clients

Now the default e-mail client is the application you selected – it will open links with email addresses and it will create new letters in it if, for example, you want to send a file by email from anywhere in macOS.