How do i make gmail my default email

Q: How do I change my default email from Outlook to Gmail?

Under Privacy, click Content Settings. Scroll down to the Handlers section, and click the Manage Handlers button. Select your desired, default email client (e.g. Gmail).

When you click on an email address on a web page or other location you may be prompted to allow the application to open Microsoft Outlook or some other email client. This is related to Outlook being your current default mail application in Windows. If you click on an email address in a browser or other application Windows will try to open Outlook to process sending a message to that address.

Please keep in mind Microsoft Windows uses Outlook as the default email client. The “Send To, Mail recipient” feature in Windows and the Microsoft Word mail merge to email feature will not work unless Outlook is setup to use your NMU G Suite gmail account via IMAP using the instructions referenced on this page or the instructions for Setting up Outlook to send mail using the NMU Mail Gateway. This is true even if you set up gmail as your default email client.

If you are using gmail you can set Chrome and gmail as the default mail application to address the issue. To do this:

1. Type 'default apps' in the Windows start menu.

2. Click the current app listed under "Email" in this case "Outlook 2016" and choose your normal web browser, such as "Google Chrome".

3. Open Chrome and go to mail.google.com and log in.

4. Right click the double black diamond in the far right of the address field and choose "Allow" and click "Done".

In Firefox, you would click on the 3 horizontal lines in the right corner, choose Options. Then search for "mailto". Click on the item there and change to Gmail.

5. Try clicking an email link in a web page or Microsoft Word document and verify it opens Chrome and Gmail to send a message.

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Note: These options may require that you enable the "Open email links in new tab" option within Pipedrive. To learn how to enable this, read more here.

If you haven't signed up for the Advanced, Professional, or Enterprise plan yet and enabled full email sync, whenever you click an email address in Pipedrive (or any mailto link), a command is sent to your browser to begin composing an email to that person using your web browser's default email client.

For many people, this may be Outlook or Apple Mail, but what if you wish to use Gmail?

...in Google Chrome:

Open Gmail in Chrome and click the Protocol Handler icon in your browser's address bar. If you don't see this icon, skip move ahead to the following steps.
When prompted to "Allow mail.google.com to open all email links?", select "Allow", and click "Done". Then you're done and can ignore the following steps.

If you were unable to see the Protocol Handler icon, click the Chrome menu icon in the top-right corner of your browser and choose "Settings".

Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click "Advanced"to move into the advanced settings options within Google Chrome.
From there, find and click the Content settings option.

From there, scroll down to and click on the Handlers section.
Make sure that the "Allow sites to ask to become default handlers for protocols (recommended)" option is enabled.
Make sure that Gmail (or mail.google.com) is confirmed as a handler.

Note: If you are having issues enabling this, you can also use the Mailto extension for Google Chrome.

...in Mozilla Firefox:

In the top-left corner of your Firefox browser, click the Firefox menu button and select "Options".

Click the Applications tab and type "mailto" into the search bar.
Click the drop-down arrow next to the Action column.
Select "Use Gmail", click "OK" and you're done!

...in Internet Explorer:

Click here to download the Google Tooler for Internet Explorer.
Once installed, click the wrench icon at the top-right corner of your Internet Explorer browser to open the Toolbar Options window.
Scroll down to the Web-browsing tools section.
Select "Use Gmail for 'Mail To' links" and click "Save". Now you're good to go!

...in Safari:

Click here to download the Mailto extension for the Safari browser.
Once installed, click the arrow at the top right of your Safari browser, click the download and click "Install" in the pop-up window.

Select Gmail from the list of options.

Restart your browser and you're all set!

How do I change my default email?

Choose your default account.

Go to your Gmail inbox..

Click on your profile image at the top right of your inbox..

Sign out of your account. ... .

Back in Gmail.com, click Sign in and choose your preferred default account..

Enter your password..

Click Next..

Now you can add your other accounts to your new default account..

How do I change my default email from Outlook to Gmail?

Under "Privacy," click Content Settings. Scroll down to the "Handlers" section, and click the Manage Handlers button. Select your desired, default email client (e.g. Gmail).