Default Mail App - Yahoo?

imick · January 29, 2008 5:18PM

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)?

ireland · January 29, 2008 6:25PM

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!

mr. me · January 29, 2008 6:28PM

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.

imick · January 29, 2008 9:36PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Me

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.

imick · January 29, 2008 9:44PM

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Originally Posted by Ireland

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.

karl kuehn · January 30, 2008 12:37AM

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.

imick · January 30, 2008 6:43AM

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Originally Posted by Karl Kuehn

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.

achiever · January 30, 2008 1:24PM

Another upside to using gmail vs. Yahoo is that Yahoo doesn't offer IMAP, even to those who are paying $10 a year for the Yahoo Plus or $20 for the upgraded mailbox and POP forwarding. It is inconceivable to me that in this day and age some companies are still charging for POP mail forwarding. I know more than a few people who left Yahoo when they started charging for POP mail forwarding a few years back.

Doesn't answer your initial question, just more food for thought.

talksense101 · January 31, 2008 6:59PM

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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.

imick · January 31, 2008 8:03PM

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Originally Posted by talksense101

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.

mr. me · January 31, 2008 10:28PM

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Originally Posted by iMick

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.

fjpoblam · October 12, 2009 12:58PM

In Firefox, it's simply a matter of specifying, in the Applications tab of the Preferences menu, that Yahoo! mail is to handle all "mailto:" links. (Previously, I had specified that Gmail was to handle "mailto:" links, so it works that way, too.) I DO NOT have Yahoo! premium, so that's NOT the issue. I do NOT have an Applescript, so that's NOT the issue. Is there another method, for Safari, through which I may specify that "mailto:" links are to be handled via an online service rather than via the Mail app?

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