Make Gmail the default mailto: link in Safari

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Make Gmail the default mailto: link in Safari

Previously, the method described here (https://ithelp.brown.edu/kb/articles/open-email-links-with-gmail-in-safari) worked well to allow email links to be opened with Gmail in Safari. In Safari 12.0, this type of extension no longer works. Instead, a paid app (Open With - Browser, Mail Client, Gmail picker on the Mac App Store) exists in the Mac Store but it seems crazy to have to spend $5 to get this functionality.

Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), macOS Mojave (10.14.1), Safari 12.0.1

Posted on Nov 10, 2018 7:13 AM

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Answer 1

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foonix

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Feb 5, 2019 4:50 PM in response to nitramwin

I just shipped Open In Webmail on the Mac App Store. It handles opening mailto: links in Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Fastmail, Zoho, or AOL. It's not free but it's only $1 — seemed fair for the time it took to package this up nicely. Hope it's useful to some of you!

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Eric Root

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Nov 10, 2018 7:24 AM in response to nitramwin

You can check the link below to see if you can find another extension.

https://safari-extensions.apple.com

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clayhalo

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29 points

Nov 22, 2018 8:24 PM in response to nitramwin

The answer from Eric Root is not helpful at all. The app store has hundreds of extensions with the word "Gmail" in it, but no Mailto extension to make Gmail the default mailto link. My mailto extension was summarily removed from my set of Safari Extensions.

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Other100

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9 points

Jan 2, 2019 3:03 PM in response to nitramwin

I want gmail, in Safari, to open when I click on a mail link. Mailto worked perfectly till it was banned in Mojave. The recommended app to do so in the app store has bad reviews: lots of crashes reported. We need either a replacement for Mailto or an easy way to set it as do all other browsers. This is a deal breaker that can send me out of Safari back to Chrome. If I don't get a solution, then Bye Apple. Hello Google.

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Jan 28, 2019 11:05 PM in response to Other100

I agree with you

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