Comments on: How to change your default mailto client to GMail or Yahoo

By: Max

Max — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:50:52 +0000

I’m glad that userscript I wrote so long ago helped some people. (It apparently has been installed about 13,846 times!) As some people have mentioned, Firefox version 3 and up is now able to provide nearly the same functionality, on its own, so there isn’t really a need for Mailto 2 Webmail anymore. They do it a little differently, though, so I might update the old Mailto 2 Webmail script to make it easier to use/configure, and make it a little more useful.
Great write-up on how to go about using that script.

By: Mark Waite

Mark Waite — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:30:20 +0000

There is a similarly simple way from the current Yahoo mail client. In the Yahoo Mail “Options” drop down menu at the top right of the Yahoo Mail client, there is a pick which says “Set Y! Mail as default webmail”.

Thanks for answers!

By: Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:36:18 +0000

There’s a WAY simpler way than this…

In Firefox / Tools / Options / Applications / Mailto –> Default will prob be MS Outlook, so click drop down arrow and select e.g. – Gmail

Done!

By: PPC Coach

PPC Coach — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:10:18 +0000

Great post. I’ll definitely be back. Thanks again, Gael

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:57:13 +0000

I printed and followed the directions. BUT, when I open Greasemonkey and go to Manage User Scripts, all I have is a page with “Included Pages” which is blank, and “Excluded Pages” which has http://mail.google.com and https://mail.google.com. There is no “EDIT THIS ONLY”. Now what???

By: stelvio

stelvio — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:57:19 +0000

Thanks so much for your suggestion, the author of the script did an excellent job! Now my gmail apps mail account opens like a charm in firefox when clicking ‘mailto’ links…

By: jma

jma — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:59:30 +0000

it works great good job i was looking for this fix for a long time

By: SusanZ

SusanZ — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:24:50 +0000

Wow! like Michelle I was sooo happy to finally find an answer to this problem! I use yahoo mail and was almost ready to celebrate having successfully fixed it when I got to the part about changing the yahooServer. What do I do if I have 2 yahoo email addresses: one’s the address I have with my Yahoo hosted website and one’s my personal yahoo address (plus my husband has an address on the same computer)?
I hope this isn’t too stupid a question?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:30:20 +0000

AWESOME!!!! I have spent the better part of my day trying to figure this out/search the web and find the answer. It is one of those things that has irritated me for some time and I finally decided to fix it. I am running Vista and most info I could find wouldn’t work with this OS. Your suggestion is the only thing that worked. THANK YOU!!

By: Dick Mariner

Dick Mariner — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:19:12 +0000

“How to change your default mailto client to GMail”
Another quick way : go to Google Talk > settings > general > tick box for “Open Gmail when I click on email links”. Click OK…..another easy job done..!!

By: Annie

Annie — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:01:12 +0000

Sorry, I was doing it wrong. It works now and I can’t thank you enough for creating this!!

By: Annie

Annie — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:49:44 +0000

I was so excited to see this post on how to change my default mail to Yahoo. Unfortunately it didn’t work