How to change the default email to yahoo

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How to change the default email to yahoo

The Apple mail app keeps open when I hit various links and I am trying to get yahoo as my default email. I've checked the preferences for Snow Leopard, Chrome (my browser) and the Mail App program, itself. Mail gives me the option of selecting another physical program, but I want to use a web-based email as my default. How is this done? Thanks

Intel iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 3, 2011 7:37 AM

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Feb 3, 2011 8:59 AM in response to TheKid43

When a web browser opens a 'mailto' link, it starts whatever the default mail application is (the same behavior is consistent with all web browsers and operating systems; the HTML specification specifies this behavior). If you want to use a browser-based e-mail service, like Yahoo!, you cannot setup your browser as the default e-mail client (because, it's a browser and not an e-mail client; think of the e-mail client being on another machine that's operated by Yahoo!). This is the same on OS X, Windows, and Linux.

What you can do, however, is to setup Apple's Mail to use Yahoo! Mail: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/classic/mailplus/pop/pop-14.html

Note that Yahoo now charges for this service (Yahoo! Mail Plus, $19.00/year). Google offers the same service for free.

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