First, launch the Mail client on your Mac (it's inside the Applications folder) and then go to Mail Preferences. Click on the General tab and look for 'Default email reader'. Select another mail client or browser from the drop down menu and then close the Preferences window for your change to take effect. Filed Under: Preferences, OS X, Mail. May 20, 2019 To work around this behavior, set Outlook to be the default application in Apple Mail preferences. To do this, follow these steps: Run the Mail application. On the Mail menu, click Preferences. Click the General tab. For Default email reader, select Microsoft Outlook.
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- Jan 19, 2017 If you want to change the default email client in macOS Sierra, you can simply follow the steps below: 1. Launch the Mail app on your Mac, and press “ command +, “. You can also go to “ Mail - Preferences “.
- I've been trying to change the default email application on my Macbook Pro unsucessfully. I'm using Outlook 2016 on my Mac and would like to use it for all my email as I use Safari to login to my personal web mail. On Yosemite I would open Mail, go to Preferences and change the Default Email Application in the menu to Outlook.
- Feb 05, 2020 Here's how: Launch Mail from your dock or the Finder. Click Mail in the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click Preferences. Click the dropdown next to Default Mail Reader. Click the app you'd like to set as the default. Source: iMore.
Use the Mail app to send, receive, and manage email for all of your email accounts in one location. Simply add the accounts—such as iCloud, Exchange, Google, school, work, or other—you want to use in Mail.
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Add an email account
- The first time you open the Mail app on your Mac, it may prompt you to add an account. Select an account type—if you don’t see your type, select Other Mail Account—then enter your account information.
- If you already added an email account, you can still add more. In Mail, choose Mail > Add Account, select an account type, then enter your account information. Make sure the Mail checkbox is selected for the account.
- If you’re using an account on your Mac with other apps, such as Contacts or Messages, you can also use that account with Mail. In Mail, choose Mail > Accounts to open Internet Accounts preferences, select the account on the left, then select the Mail checkbox on the right.
Temporarily stop using an email account
- In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Accounts.
- Select the account, then deselect the Mail checkbox.Now the account’s messages are not shown in Mail.
To use the account again with Mail, select the Mail checkbox; the account’s messages are shown again (they don’t need to be downloaded from the server again).
Remove an email account
When you remove an email account from Mail, the account’s messages are deleted and no longer available on your Mac. Copies of messages remain on the account’s mail server and are still available (from webmail, for example).
Important: If you’re unsure whether messages you want to keep are still on the mail server, move or copy them to a mailbox stored on your Mac (the mailbox appears in the On My Mac section in the Mail sidebar) before you delete the account in Mail.
- In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, then click Accounts.
- Select an account, then click the Remove button .Note: If the account is used by other apps on your Mac, you’re asked to remove the account in Internet Accounts System Preferences. Click the button to open Internet Accounts, then deselect the Mail checkbox for the account. To stop using the account in all apps, make sure the account is selected, then click the Remove button .
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10.5: Send mail from Terminal using mail/sendmail
I tried this with two authenticated accounts I have and I got an error in both cases:status=deferred (host asmtp.myisp.com said: 454 5.7.3 Client does not have permission to Send As this sender. (in reply to end of DATA command))
I tried both tests and both gave the above error, so I don't know what went wrong.
I tried both tests and both gave the above error, so I don't know what went wrong.
10.5: Send mail from Terminal using mail/sendmail
For Mac OS X Server you can just send mail using above mentioned commands without any extra configuration.
10.5: Send mail from Terminal using mail/sendmail
Thanks, this works great! Only problem is the sender field appear as 'Machine Username <[email protected]>', not 'Full Name <[email protected]>'. Does anyone know how to change this? The only way I could find to customize the display name was to change my user account name in System Preferences :/
10.5: Send mail from Terminal using mail/sendmail
Mac Os Default Mail App
10.5: Send mail from Terminal using mail/sendmail
Or use SendEmail, a simple perl script that has all the options you can think of and won't mess with your default installation.
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10.5: Send mail from Terminal using mail/sendmail
Here's the update for the SSL certificate verification:
If you want the verification process to work, you'll need to provide valid certificate authority (CA) certificates to OpenSSL via postfix. For some reason, my computer did not have the default OpenSSL root CA certificates installed. So, I decided to import them from the system root CA keychain.
Run the following:
Include the following in /etc/postfix/main.cf:
Now you can change the MUST_NOPEERMATCH to just MUST, and the certificate verification should succeed if the certificate was signed with one of the system-accepted root certificates.
This hint may well be beyond the capabilities of many readers. For those with a desire to replicate the goal of this hint, it can be done with some free/inexpensive software:
http://cutedgesystems.com/software/MailServeForLeopard/ MailServe (Leopard) [$15]
http://cutedgesystems.com/software/MailServe/ MailServe (Tiger) [Free]
http://cutedgesystems.com/software/PostfixEnabler/ Postfix Enabler (Tiger & Panther) [Free]
Or you could splurge and get a copy of OS X Server and use Server Admin to enable your own mail server...
http://cutedgesystems.com/software/MailServeForLeopard/ MailServe (Leopard) [$15]
http://cutedgesystems.com/software/MailServe/ MailServe (Tiger) [Free]
http://cutedgesystems.com/software/PostfixEnabler/ Postfix Enabler (Tiger & Panther) [Free]
Or you could splurge and get a copy of OS X Server and use Server Admin to enable your own mail server...
10.5: Send mail from Terminal using mail/sendmail
I found this hint very useful and wanted to illustrate its use based on the example of gmail as your outgoing SMTP server. Here is the content of my main.cf file:
As you can see I didn't use parameter, which appears to be not required for gmail.
The content of /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd file is
after you create the file issue
Generate the certificate (this was copied from post above)
Finally restart Postfix for good measure
Thats it. You can now send email though gmail.
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_CAfile = /System/Library/OpenSSL/certs/cert.pem
As you can see I didn't use parameter, which appears to be not required for gmail.
smtp_tls_per_site = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_tls_sites
The content of /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd file is
[smtp.gmail.com]:587 [email protected]:your password
after you create the file issue
sudo chmod 400 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
sudo postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
Generate the certificate (this was copied from post above)
sudo security find-certificate -a -p /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain > /System/Library/OpenSSL/certs/cert.pem
Finally restart Postfix for good measure
sudo Postfix stop
sudo Postfix start
Thats it. You can now send email though gmail.