The fact that, eight years into the App Store, I’m still cherry-picking my ideal set of features for an email client says a lot about the landscape.

I like my email client to bear the speed and polish of Microsoft’s Outlook, the clever touches and integrations of Dispatch, and, if possible, the smart options of Inbox and Spark. I have written my fair share of email client reviews since 2009, and I’ve made my stance on what I’m looking for abundantly clear. You have to believe that, if this planet were to end tomorrow, cockroaches and IMAP would survive it. Messaging services may rise and grow and fall and shut down, but email will always be there, humbly humming along, hoarding thousands of unread messages in your inbox. And yet, for better or worse, we keep using it.ĭespite its archaic nature and stale protocols, email works – it’s the closest thing to a common standard for digital communication we have. Email has been deemed unfixable, unmanageable, and unhealthy. Over the course of (almost) seven years of writing for MacStories, I’ve seen email pronounced dead (multiple times), reinvented, redesigned, and, most recently, made smarter with machine learning and cloud services. If you are not logged into GWA/Chrome, Chrome will open and ask you to log into GWA.If you want to drive an average tech nerd crazy, try to talk about email clients. Now, clicking 'mailto' links will automatically open the email draft in GWA if you are logged into GWA using Chrome. click Allow to the question 'Allow to open all email links?' click the Handler icon (2 overlapping diamonds) near the right end of the address bar at the top of the window open the Google Chrome browser and log into your Connect account using the GWA in the 'Applications' list, click Google ChromeĢ) Allow to open all email links:

on the General tab, find Default email reader and click on the drop-down menu

open Apple Mail and select Preferences from the Mail menu To change the default email client from Apple Mail to the Google Web App (GWA) in Google Chrome, you need to do 2 things:ġ) In Apple Mail, set Google Chrome as the default email reader: What if you want the Connect Google Web App to open and send the new message? On Mac OS X, when you click on an email ('mailto') link, by default Apple Mail opens the new message window.

Mac email client bug