Now the next time you go to compose a new email message, either from Mail app or elsewhere, that email account selected will be the new default email address that any new mail is sent from. Look for “Send new messages from:” and pull down the ‘Account of selected mailbox’ dropdown menu to select the email address to use as the new default.Pull down the “Mail” menu and choose “Preferences”.Open Mail app in Mac OS X if you haven’t done so already.You obviously need multiple email accounts setup on the Mac for this to be an option, aside from that this process is the same with any modern version of Mail app for Mac: Changing the Default Email Account in Mail for Mac Even after setting this you can continue to switch mail addresses easily in compositions. To be clear, this does not disable the other email accounts or disallow their use in Mail app, it simply sets the preferred address to be the default for mail. That includes new mail compositions created from within Mail.app and also elsewhere in Mac OS X, like a mailto link in a web browser or another app. You can confirm that by going into “Chrome settings -> Content settings” and clicking on “Manage handlers…” You should see that the “mailto” type of links now point to “,” which is the Gmail website.What this is going to do is set the default email account for any new email message composition in the Mail app. You have successfully configured Chrome to open all of the email links in the Gmail website. The steps above are to allow the Gmail website to open all of the email links and not redirect you to the stock Mail app. You need to click on it and select “Allow” and then click on “Done.” Once you are in your inbox, in the address bar of your browser you should be able to see an icon that looks like the one shown in the following screenshot. Head to the Gmail website and log in to your account.ģ. Setting the Gmail Website as the Default Mail App in Google ChromeĢ. In this article we are going to show you how to change your default Mail app to the Gmail website so that all of your future clicks on email links open there rather than the stock Mail app.Ĭonfiguring various web browsers, namely Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, to use the Gmail website as the default Mail app is fairly easy, and here’s how you can go about doing that on your machine.
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