• Change Default Mail Client On Macbook

Change Default Mail Client On Macbook

The Mail app on your Mac is a decent email app and comes pre-installed and set as the default email client. However, if you don’t want to use the Mail app as the default email client, you can use a different email app, such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, and I’ll show you how. The default mail client on the Mac is the Mail application. When you click on a “mailto” link in a Web page, a new Mail message form opens with the 'To:' field populated by the linked email address. Mail.app, the email client that is bundled with macOS, is surprisingly robust. Still, it does have some limitations, leading many to switch to third-party email clients.

4/7/12 @ 7:32 pm This does not make outlook the default emial provider. It only allows you to choose to send a file you click as an email. For those that don’t get it. Some of the functions of a default email provider means, that when you click on a email link on a web page, it will open up an email in your default program, i.e. Presently, for those on this thread and on threads on the net, it opens up apple mail.