Default apps are really cool. They are native, work right from the box and are extremely reliable for basic tasks. Yet, sometimes they lack some necessary features and lag behind most of the competitors. That’s when you might want to change your default email client.
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 Preferences from the Mail menu. Choose your email app from the 'Default email reader' pop-up menu. You can also set your default email app in the preferences of your third-party email app. Approach 1 To Set Mac Microsoft Outlook as Default Email Client First, go to the Apple Mail and select Preferences option After that, click on the General Tab to set Microsoft Outlook as Default It is just a simple way to get Outlook application to act as the default program. May 31, 2016 Mac users who have multiple email accounts setup with the Mail app may wish to change or set the default email address that is used throughout Mac OS X. This can help to prevent accidentally sending an email from the wrong email address, which should be particularly helpful for those who juggle work and personal email accounts within the Mail app. If you’ve ever been browsing on a Mac and clicked a mailto: link, you may have discovered that it often tends to default to the Mail app. If you want to use Gmail (or another email service) you need to make a few changes. To be clear, the problem isn’t with opening links in another email.
Set up your default email reader. Your default mail reader is what's used when you're browsing a web page and share it via email with a friend or colleague, or mail it to yourself for further reading. The Mac default is to use the Mail app, but you can change the default to Outlook. Open Finder Applications. I use outlook to access my email and would like outlook to be the default mail application. All the instructions I find online suggest that I should open mail and choose 'Mail - Preferences' to set the default mail app. Unfortunately Preferences is greyed out until an account is added. I don't have another account that I want to add to my mac.
You can do that literally in seconds.
First, open the default Mail app (sorry for that) and click on Mail > Preferences in the upper menu. You’ll only need to do this once, to set default email mac.
Once there, switch to the ‘General’ tab and click on ‘Default Email Reader’. Now you can choose the app you would like to be the default one for managing emails.
If there’s no such option in the dropdown, you can select any app from the Applications folder. To do so, click on ‘Select’ and pick your email champion.
That’s it. Now you are using the email client that is the best for managing your inbox and the most customized to your needs.
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