How do you make yahoo email the default emailer?

[Sal_55]

I have yahoo mail as my normal email service. But when there's a link
to an email address on the web and I click on it, outlook express
opens up. I have been to yahoo answers and their tip to make yahoo my
default email sender doesn't work. Can anyone please be kind enough to
tell me how to make Yahoo email my default emailer?
Thanks and bye.

 

[rodney.usenet]

I have yahoo mail as my normal email service. But when there's a link
to an email address on the web and I click on it, outlook express
opens up. I have been to yahoo answers and their tip to make yahoo my
default email sender doesn't work. Can anyone please be kind enough to
tell me how to make Yahoo email my default emailer?
Thanks and bye.

In Firefox you can use the WebMailCompose-extension which can do this,
sorry, no url present, use google.

 

[Sal_55]

You haven't said what operating system you're using .http://email.about.com/od/yahoomailtips/qt/et_default_mail.htm

Sorry, It's Windows XP.Thanks.

 

[Just.some.guy]

Hi...first download Yahoo messenger and install it.(you have to have it in
order for Yahoo mail to be an option) Restart IE...and then...go to
*tools*...
*internet options*... *programs*...*email* and then you should see Yahoo
email there. Change it to Yahoo, hit apply and Yahoo should become your
default email. Post back and let us know how it worked out for you

 

[VanguardLH]

Hi...first download Yahoo messenger and install it.(you have to have
it in order for Yahoo mail to be an option) Restart IE...and
then...go to *tools*...
*internet options*... *programs*...*email* and then you should see
Yahoo email there. Change it to Yahoo, hit apply and Yahoo should
become your default email. Post back and let us know how it worked
out for you

If you don't want a prattle client just to have Yahoo Mail available
as an option for a default mail client, get Yahoo's toolbar. I
believe both include the ActiveX control used to supply a client-side
program which you can then select as the default mail program. Yahoo
used to make this AX control available separately but not anymore.
Now you're stuck with their toolbar or messenger programs.

If you don't want to use their ActiveX control so you could use a
local e-mail client rather than having to use their ad-laden web site,
you could get YahooPOPs and use it to access your Yahoo account.
YahooPOPs runs as a local POP-to-HTTP proxy to let your POP e-mail
client connect to their HTTP webmail interface.

 

[Jeff Strickland]

Yahoo is a service of your browser, and your browser is not a mail handler
it is a search engine that displays results of searches of your email
account. You computer won't know about a web-based email client. I didn't
say that right, sorry. The point is, your Yahoo mail comes to you via your
browser because it is a web-based presentation.

Most people prefer a mail client (Outlook Exprtess, for example -- there are
several that are better) over a web-based email experience. It makes far
more sense to set up Outlook Express, or one of the far better clients, to
handle your email experience. Outlook Express is happy to find mail going to
your Yahoo! email account. You are already using some kind of client (OE,
maybe) to post the newsgroups, use the same client to get your mail for you
and the trouble will be solved.

 

[jameshanley39]

Why in the world do you want to use an abusive service? You should
realize that Yahoo attaches their own advertisement to every email that
you send. If you're a professional, this makes you look like a shmuck to
your recipients.

This is even true if you're a paid subscriber to AT&T internet, because
they're such a bunch of cheap bozos that they farm out their ISP service
to Yahoo.

Try a real ISP and authentic Pop3 mail service. You'll probably never
want to go back.

Richard

Because web email is archived.

Because yahoo is reliable long term. And pretty good short term.

Yahoo used to actually offer pop3 with their accounts, and anybody
with old yahoo accounts still have that.

Yahoo gave unlimited storage free before gmail even advertised it..
Gmail is prob better than yahoo now, but I have an old yahoo account
and was so disgusted with Google for doing their invitation nonsense
and not having a link to sign up.. for years. I said screw them. I
never changed to gmail. And now many gmail and googlemail usernames
are used up anyway..(perhaps even more than yahoo) .

I use some non main googlemail accounts. Forwarding to a main yahoo EM
is useful.

Gmail offers secure pop.

web based EM account does not necessarily mean no POP.

True though about the value of a "professional looking" email address.

If you have to check your email every 10 minutes, then you may want an
email client and email notifier. But in the case of many people, if
they are checking their email every 2 or 10 min, it is a probably a
bad habit they should cut, a distraction, a desperate act!

It is mobile, and no configuring an email client remebering to tell it
to leave messages on server incase it is not default. (note- though
any POP can be accessed via the web - mobile. - www.mail2web.com But
a yahoo interface to yahoo account is prob more efficient than a
generic interface to any pop3 account.)

one can use a prog like shortkeys if logging on is a nuisance. I type
fast though. An email client does have the advantage of not neeeding
that. But as mentioned, some web accounts do offer POP.

 

[jameshanley39]

I have yahoo mail as my normal email service. But when there's a link
to an email address on the web and I click on it, outlook express
opens up. I have been to yahoo answers and their tip to make yahoo my
default email sender doesn't work. Can anyone please be kind enough to
tell me how to make Yahoo email my default emailer?
Thanks and bye.

well, I just don't click them.

If I want to send an email, then I highlight and copy it and when I
get to the yahoo email page, I paste the email address into the "To"
section.
Or I might copy/paste it into notepad for "safekeeping" then copy/
paste it into yahoo