How to change default email client to Outlook for Mac.

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AleksanderC

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Hi,
I want to change my default email client to newly purchased Outlook for Mac.
But what ever I do, I can't send email clicking on link or from other software.
I enter the Parallels VM (all Windows VMs) configuration, and changed email client to "open on Mac". After this changed the settings in Mac Mail to proper value.
But after a few seconds I opened the mail properties, and again this is "Parallels Desktop.app".
The final efect is when I click email link, the "Parallels Desktop control center" appears on the screen not the "Outlook new message window".
My configuration is Macbook with El Captain & Parallels Desktop 10 with 3 VM (Win 7, Win XP, Ubuntu). With all updates.
Any clue?
 
Hello Aleksander,
Please follow the steps below to configure Shared Internet Applications Tool:
Open virtual machine window (Do not click Start).
Open virtual machine configuration > switch to Options tab > Applications.
Set Web Pages, Email to desired values.
For deeper configuration use More Applications button.
 
Hi,
It's solved now.
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Open virtual machine window (Do not click Start).
Open virtual machine configuration > switch to Options tab > Applications.
Set Web Pages, Email to desired values.
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Yes I did it several times with different setting ("Open on Mac", "Use default").
I also stopped the Parallels, and started it again, without any positive effect.
Finally, only helped restart the computer.

Anyway thanks for try.
Alex
 
Hello Everyone
Step :1 Open virtual machine window
Step :2 Configuration > switch to Options tab > Applications.
Step :3 Set Web Pages, Email to desired values.
Step :4 Configuration use More Applications button.
 
Step 0: Close all virtual machines
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Step 5: Restart computer
Step 6: If you use email on host system, start "Mai"l open "Preferences - General" and choose requested email client.

Without steps 0 & 5 - the other steps may not work. This is my experience.
 
You can try the beta version of Airmail for free [ https://www.cleverfiles.com/help/best-mac-email-client.html ]. If you like it, you can pick up the regular version off the App Store. I've been using this for a bit now and generally like the UI, but periodically it has one annoying problem in that it claims there are pending operations when I try to quit it. I've never seen this in any other email client I've used.
Otherwise, I can recommend GyazMail. It's more of a traditional email client but works very well and though the developer seemed to be a bit slow at keeping it updated at one point, it was recently updated for Yosemite compatibility.
 
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