![]() ![]() I tested an email link from a website to check that this was a system wide rather than an issue specific to Tweetbox. I made the change, closed “Apple Mail” and tried again! This done, the field that needed changing was obvious, Preferences > General > Default email reader This was not a problem, although I did have to create an account within “Apple Mail” before the preferences pane became accessible. Googling revealed that I needed to make this change under “Apple Mail” > Preferences, rather than System Preferences. What should have been a quick change of settings turned into a 10 minute battle with El Capitan to change the default mail client! I wanted to quickly share a tweet from Tweetbot to a friend by email, I was surprised when “Apple Mail” launched and asked me to setup an email account, I do not use “Apple Mail” I was using Airmail as my primary email client at the time. Launch “Apple Mail” > Preferences > General – Change the default mail client Go into System Preferences > iCloud – sign out! ![]() Intended Audience: Anybody struggling to change the default OSX Mail Client under El Capitan In later releases of OSX 10.11 the procedure may be more simple than the steps I took with 10.11.1 Click the Default email reader drop-down list and choose the email client you want to use (If your email app isn’t listed, choose Select from the drop-down list, navigate to the Applications folder and click the mail client you wish to use).January 2017 update: On a fresh installation of macOS Sierra, changing the default mail client was significantly less painful! I launched “Apple Mail” added an account, from “Apple Mail” preferences I was able to simply change the default mail client, this appears to have made the change without issue.Īugust 2016 update: Please take a look at the comments before embarking on the fix detailed below.Quick Guide: To Change the Default Email Client on Your Mac You can easily change your default client from the General tab of Mail preferences. Unless you’ve changed it, the Apple Mail application (called Mail.app) is set as default.īut there are many other third-party email clients available, such as Airmail, Postbox, Outlook, Spark and Thunderbird that you can use instead of Mail.app. Whenever you click on an email link in a webpage or in a Mac application to send a new message, your default email client automatically launches. ![]()
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