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. I've been trying to change the default email application on my Macbook Pro unsucessfully. I'm using Outlook 2016 on my Mac and would like to use it for all my email as I use Safari to login to my personal web mail. On Yosemite I would open Mail, go to Preferences and change the Default Email Application in the menu to Outlook. Jun 09, 2017 Outlook 2016 for Mac set as default, emails still open in Apple Mail. I then right click the email file and Mail shows as the default, even though that does not match what's in the Mail preferences. Sure, I can right click every time and choose Outlook, but that defeats the purpose of opening individual emails in Outlook. Mac OS X ships with Mac Mail built-in, and automatically set as the default email application on your iMac or MacBook / Air / Pro. As soon as you install another program capable of handling email, it can be set as the new default. Unlike changing the default web browser on a Mac, the default mail handler is not controlled from the centralized system preferences app (weird quirk!).
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Mail User Guide
You can change preferences for the SMTP mail server you use to send messages, as directed by the provider of your email accounts.
To change these preferences in the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, click Server Settings, click the outgoing Account pop-up menu, then choose Edit SMTP Server List.
Server Settings
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Certain actions that you perform on your Mac will cause default apps to open. For example, clicking a document may open Pages. But what if you want Microsoft Word to open instead? You can also set your default web browser and email reader.
Here's how!
How to change the default Mac app for specific file types
Now any time you open a file with that extension, the Finder will automatically open it with the app you've selected.
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How to set your default email reader
Mail is likely the default email app on your Mac, but just in case you have others downloaded, you can set the default reader. Here's how:
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Updated February 2020: Updated for macOS Catalina!
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