When you click email links on webpages, you can automatically open them in Gmail instead of your computer's default email client.
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Google Chrome
In Google Chrome, click More near the top right corner of the browser, then click Settings.
On the left, click Privacy and security, then click Site Settings.
Click Additional permissions.
Click Handlers, and make sure Allow sites to ask to become default handlers for protocols is toggled on. If mail.google.com appears in the list, ensure that it is not blocked on the handlers sections of permissions!
In the address bar, click the double-diamond Service Handler icon .
When prompted to Allow mail.google.com to open all email links?, select Allow, then click Done.
Safari
Unfortunately, recent versions of Safari have removed the ability to set a default mail program. A third-party, paid utility is available in the Mac App Store to restore this functionality, but UNC Asheville ITS does not endorse, recommend, or support this utility.
If you must use Safari, as a workaround when you encounter an email link:
Right-click (or hold Control, then click) the email link.
Click the To: field, then press Command+V on your keyboard to paste the email address(es) you copied. You can also right-click (or hold Control, then click), then click Paste.
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