setting e-mail preferences in Safari

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setting e-mail preferences in Safari

I'm having some trouble with Safari opening Mail when I click on an e-mail link...ideally, I would like it to open with my Yahoo! Mail, because I have not been using the application Mail, but I don't know how to switch my preferences to do that. It's actually become a really big problem!

So, any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Mar 7, 2007 5:28 PM

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Eme

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Mar 7, 2007 5:54 PM in response to elyse m

Hi Elyse m,

Welcome to Apple discussions: )

I am not sure I understand. Do you mean you can not log in at Yahoo email by entering your ID & password?

If you click on a link in your Yahoo email[s] using your Safari browser the link, if it is a web link will open a Safari window.

Please let me us know if you can log into Yahoo mail using the link i posted above.

Eme'~[)

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elyse m Author

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Mar 7, 2007 6:20 PM in response to Eme

Thank you for the welcome. =)

Okay...hmm...let me rephrase this...

You know when you go to a webpage, and it says, "Click here to e-mail me" or whatever, and the html is set up so that it opens your mail application?

Well, I haven't been using my mail application, and so I don't want it to open it with that.

Instead, I would like it to open a blank "compose" screen in my Yahoo Mail.

I just wanted to know if that was even possible, and, if so, how?

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Eme

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Mar 7, 2007 7:35 PM in response to elyse m

Hi again,

Oh, yes sorry to have misunderstood you. Yes you basically need to change the Preferences in Mail-> preferences-> General tab,
Default email reader, chose Safari or another browser Firefox for instance
& set your home page to Yahoo.

See this topic in the Mail forum for more details on how to.

Let me [us] know if that topic thread helps.

Good luck!

Eme'~[ )

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elyse m Author

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Mar 14, 2007 3:05 PM in response to Eme

Oh, that's useful! The only problem is, I can't access my preferences unless I'm signed into Mail, and I have no accounts registered. Is there anything I can do about that?

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