Default Mail App - Yahoo?
Is there anyway to make Yahoo my default mail app, using Leopard 10.5.1? I can't seem to find anything on Yahoo's site.
Along those same lines, it's very annoying when I accidentally click a link, then Mail.app opens. However, I don't use Mail. Can I just delete the app? If so, what would happen if I did accidentally click an emailto link (assuming that Yahoo can't yet be a default mail app)?
Along those same lines, it's very annoying when I accidentally click a link, then Mail.app opens. However, I don't use Mail. Can I just delete the app? If so, what would happen if I did accidentally click an emailto link (assuming that Yahoo can't yet be a default mail app)?
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Actually... this might make your day Mike: Yahoo! answers
Do you have Leopard installed Mike? I think if you have Leopard you may very well be able to simply type your password and username into Mail.app and click Quick setup and done!
Compile an AppleScript which launches your browser and opens the URL for Yahoo Mail. Choose the compiled AppleScript as your default email client.
Yahoo Mail is not an application. To the user, it is a website. There is probably a way to do what you want:
Compile an AppleScript which launches your browser and opens the URL for Yahoo Mail. Choose the compiled AppleScript as your default email client.
That's a good idea. I'll look into that.
I think you need to get a "pro" Yahoo account to do that ($10 yearly). That's what's great about gmail, you can do the same POP/IMAP thing - but for free. I'm sure you can turn off mail as default somewhere in Mail Prefs - I'll look into that.
Actually... this might make your day Mike: Yahoo! answers
Do you have Leopard installed Mike? I think if you have Leopard you may very well be able to simply type your password and username into Mail.app and click Quick setup and done!
I do have the "pro" version, and it doesn't work.
I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that Gmail works. I've been thinking of switching to that anyway, because I get ZERO spam in that account, but I get plenty in my Yahoo account.
You are correct about Leopard & Yahoo, however, Mail is putting a bunch of junk in my inbox rather than in my junk box. Most of this junk is in my spam folder in Yahoo mail's web site, but a lot of it is going to my inbox in Mail. I'll mess with it some more.
You are missing the main point: any email that you get at through a web page is not a real application, and thus cannot register to handle "mailto:" links. Some people have written hacks that take those links, then re-direct them to the browser, but there is nothing that a website (Google or others) can do to change this without you installing other software.
Yep. I understand that. However, in the past, or with "that other operating system", Yahoo has the ability to be the default mail app. It's just not available yet.
Doesn't answer your initial question, just more food for thought.
I do have the "pro" version, and it doesn't work.
I have been using Yahoo! Mail Plus for 4 years now on my Macintosh without any problems. Check your settings. The current incarnation of Yahoo!'s services use SSL.
I have been using Yahoo! Mail Plus for 4 years now on my Macintosh without any problems. Check your settings. The current incarnation of Yahoo!'s services use SSL.
So, when you click on a mailto link it opens Yahoo Mail? I was understanding that that didn't work.
So, when you click on a mailto link it opens Yahoo Mail? I was understanding that that didn't work.
Yahoo! Mail Plus is not an application. It is a fee-based service from Yahoo! Mail. It allows you to use any POP3 email client, including Mail, Entourage, Thunderbird, or whatever, to handle your messages. In talksense101's case, it was not Yahoo! Mail Plus that was responding to his mailto:'s, it was Mail.