Sep 30, 2009 Mac OS X - Setting the Default Mail Program The default mail program is the software that is registered with your operating system as the software that is to handle mailto URL's. When another application wants to send an email, it looks up the default and passes the email to the default mail. Change Outgoing server settings in Mail on Mac. You can change preferences for the SMTP mail server you use to send messages, as directed by the provider of your email accounts. To change these preferences in the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail Preferences, click Accounts, click Server Settings, click the outgoing Account pop-up menu, then choose Edit SMTP Server List. May 16, 2019 Set your default email account on Mac. Open the Mail app on your Mac and then follow these steps to set your default account. 1) Click Mail Preferences from the menu bar. 2) Select the Composing tab. 3) In the drop-down box next to Send new messages from, choose the email account you would like as your default.If you leave it as Automatically select best account, Mail will pick the.
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. I can do that on El Capitan but as soon as I close preferences and open it again the setting is back to Mail.
On older versions of Outlook you could open the app and go to preferences and check a box there to set it as the default mail app but that setting seems to have been removed.
Has anyone else experienced this?