Windows® geeks — how do I change my e-mail default

[Oeditpus Rex]

so that when I click a "mail to" hyperlink it goes to G-mail and not fucking AOL?

I've tried to change it in Control Panel, but the only options are AOL and that dogawful Outlook. :puke:

:shrug:

[Goblinmonger]

1. Yeah, me too.

I can't believe that Gates only gave us those option, frickin' douche.

[mainegreen]

2. The registry?

:P

[deucemagnet]

3. I configured Outlook for gmail.

Maybe Thunderbird is an option? :shrug:

[smtpgirl]

10. how did you do that

did g mail give you the POP & SMTP addresses?

Unless you download Outlook again and put a default email addresses, it picks the last default you have selected.

[deucemagnet]

16. There are instructions on Google.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=1555

[Strawman]

4. What did you click on in the control panel?

Mail or Internet Options? Try Internet Options, Programs tab, e-mail drop down.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. That's what I tried before

I was going on memory. There're more options than just the two, but none are G-mail — probably because it was introduced after this version of Windows.

[Xithras]

5. Not possible.

When you click a hyperlink in the browser, IE needs to know what PROGRAM to launch to process the request. You get AOL & Outlook because those are the only two email programs installed on your computer. GMail is a website, not a program on your computer.

Complain to Google. If they'd release a GMail client for Windows, you could do what you're asking.

[smtpgirl]

11. exactly

you need to know the POP & SMTP addresses.

example:

pop1.mail.com
smtp1.mail.com

AOL DOES not do that, and I gather g mail doesn't do it either, so you are limited to the gmail web browser in order to send & receive mail.

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. This might help..

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/email-apps/ask-lifehacker-gmail-as-default-mail-program-129818.php

good luck

[Xithras]

7. Color me corrected!

Cool, I had no idea there IS a GMail client program. Way to go Google!

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. W00t!

Thanks, dude. :toast:

[RoyGBiv]

9. Suggestion ...

While the GMail notifier method will work, I will gently suggest you go another route and use an e-mail client -- something like Thunderbird -- and configure *it* to use GMail.

[smtpgirl]

12. or Eudora, this is an old kind of email client, but it works

[smtpgirl]

13. did gmail give you options to download their

email client?

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. If they did, I missed it

But it's in the link Omphaloskepsis provided above.

[smtpgirl]

17. I know, it's the

pizzawithoutcrustihaveemail.com

kind of email.com, oh well

[smtpgirl]

18. not to be confused with MS Exchange

I am an Active Directory/Exchange girl

I know how internet mail works, POP/SMTP addresses

That was in the day of internet mail, hence my alias of smtpgirl

SMTP Standard Mail Transport Protocol (outgoing mail)

outgoing girl, now you know why I chose that alias: smtpgirl

old ISP stuff, worked for an ISP in the heyday of tech

Not to puff up, but my alias caught wind in the UK, so it took 6 years to copy my alias, oh well, need to find a better alias