Mail app question

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Clicking on a email us link at a web page opens the Mail.app which we do not use (rather web based mail).

Can not delete the mail.app - says used by Mac OSX

Any suggestions on how to disable the mail.app wanting to step in?

 

[Rodan52]

Select a different default email client from Mail:

1. Choose Mail > Preferences, then click General.
2. Choose an email app from the ”Default email reader” menu.

 

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Thanks for your reply -

Problem is one can not access preferences if one has not set up any accounts.
Second problem is that the 'default reader' option in prefs is for selecting a mail client (i.e. Thunderbird) rather than a web based email URL.

I did find I can delete the email app itself (not possible with 10.12 and later AFAIK) however this only stops the email app from opening up.

I think I need to explore the possibility changing the browser setitngs as they all seem to use the OSX mail app by default.

 

[BrianBaughn]

See this post in another thread:

Mac: How to fix mailto links so they open in Gmail?

Because…you can't get to the Mail preferences without setting up an account! One of the stupid things that hasn't been changed in macOS. They have an app called "System Preferences" but they don't even put your default browser or email preference selector in it. To get to that setting you're...

forums.macrumors.com

 

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Thanks Brian

To enable 'mailto:' for GMail (when at mail.google.com) in Chrome there is an icon on the right in the address bar/field that looks like an eye that one can select
For Firefox there are options for GMail and YahooMail in preferences>general>applications

I set up a dummy account in the OSX mail.app but there are no options to add a webmail URL like Hotmail etc.