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Mail client in Safari

How can I make the Safari browser default to my Adelphia Mail account? I am not using the Safari mail client.

Mary Lou

ibook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Feb 19, 2006 10:24 AM

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Feb 19, 2006 3:20 PM in response to Mary Frost

Are you saying Adelphia provides their own stand alone mail application? If so, you need to open Mail and go under Preferences > General to change the Default e-mail client.

If you'd like to set up Mail to use the Adelphia account, you'll need to enter in the SMTP or POP3 settings with your username, password, and mail.adelphia.net as the server.

If all you're trying to do is use Adelphia's webmail service, you can go to http://webmail.adelphia.net/ . When clicking on e-mail links on the web though, ALL operating systems will look for the default mail application and open it. There's no way around that.

Hope this is helpful.
-Ryan

Feb 19, 2006 5:37 PM in response to Ryan M.

Ryan, I found the general preferences you mentioned. I will have to go to Adelphia help to find how to go from there. When I choose "select" from the default mail client I can't find anything on my harddrive for adelphia's mail client.

If you have any further info that might help me figure where to go from this point, let me know.

I know how to get my adelphia mail off the web but that's not my problem. You hit it right when you directed me to the general preferences on Mail.

I'll keep trying.

Mary Lou

Feb 20, 2006 11:40 AM in response to Ryan M.

Ryan, to get back to my main problem. When I am using Safari and want to interact with a website by sending them email and I click on their link.......Mail opens and then I have to copy the email address, cancel out of Mail, go to my Adelphia email account, compose a new email and paste in the address I copied.

I hunted for an Adelphia email client on my hard drive but couldn't find it. When I went to Adelphia help to solve this they didn't seem to understand what I wanted to do.

Do you have a fix?

ML

Feb 20, 2006 11:51 AM in response to Mary Frost

When you click on a link such as this send me an e-mail (obviously a fake address), it will always default to opening your Mail client on your local machine. In this case, you have Mail set up to be the default e-mail client.

Since Adelphia doesn't provide an e-mail client other than their web-based one, you'll have to use either Entourage, Mail, or Thunderbird (whichever you prefer). Then you can set that default e-mail client in Mail as I noted above.

To use one of these clients, you'll need to set up the initial settings within the client. I personally prefer Mail as my e-mail client. To do this under most clients, go to Preferences within the client, and add a new account. The setting is a POP3 account. Under the username, enter in everything before the @ sign in your e-mail address. Both the outgoing and incoming mail servers are mail.adelphia.net. Then check to see that you can send and receive mail.

Here's a userguide with more information. Page 6 is of particular interest.

If you need more help, let me know!
-Ryan

Feb 21, 2006 11:40 AM in response to Mary Frost

Try turning off authentication.

Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts > <your active Adelphia account> > Server Settings (button) > Authentication (choose none from the drop down box).

See if that works.

Your other settings are just fine.

-Ryan

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