DON'T WANT MAIL AS DEFAULT

When I go to a website that shows an e-mail link & I click on it, the computer
automatically opens a window in the "Mail" program that I never use AND it doesn't show the e-mail address of the party. Thus, I can't cut & paste it into the Cinti Bell web-mail system that I use.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop "Mail" from opening up when I click on an e-mail link? (I already looked all through the menus in Mail and also in Mac OS System Preferences and didn't see a way to make it stop being the default).

1) BUY an e-mail client program, and set the Mail default to that, OR
You don't have to BUY any email client. The Mail.app is free and if you don't prefer or like using the Mail.app as your email client, you can download and use Thunderbird which is free.
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
2) SET the Mail program's default to a browser which in my case it
would be Safari, and that would take me to my preset Safari homepage
(Apple site) and then I would have to go to the Cinti Bell, do a new log-in,
and them open my web-mail (which may already be open), OR
Correct and you can set the Home page to be the log in page for your webmail account.
Personal preference but webmail access is primarily designed to access an email account from any computer with internet access when away from your computer. I prefer using an email client on my computer to access my email accounts and I use webmail access for an account only when away from my computer which is my only option.
3) USE "the sledge hammer approach" and delete Mail program from
the computer (it can't be the default if it doesn't exist; this may be
the cheapest in terms of money & time)
Not a good idea since the default email reader selected in Mail when deleting the application will be used and cannot be changed later without using a 3rd party utility to do so.

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Thanks for any advice!

Set Mail > Preferences > General > Default Email Reader to whatever mail client you want to be the default.
Yes, unless your preferred mail client has a similar option to do the same, you’re supposed to use Mail in order to specify that you don’t want to use Mail, and in Mac OS X 10.4 you wouldn’t even be able to do that without setting up a mail account in Mail first.

New Mac - Don't want Mail auto downloading all my old emails.

I am getting a new Mac and from previous experience, once you open Mail it automatically downloads all the old emails situated on your ISP's mail server.
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I've been mulling this over overnight and wanted to follow up.
The only thing I can think of is if your email is set up using the older POP technology, you could do this one of two ways:
1/ migrate your mail across, then from within the mail app, delete whats there (ensure your delete from server settings are switched to off - if only for this section). This will tell the server that you've already downloaded the existing mail and it ill only download new emails. IMPORTANT: this will only work for a POP Account.
2/ Again, POP only but you could alternatively redownload all the mail, and perform the #1 steps.
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If I am answering an email on yahoo or hotmail or gmail and I click a "mailto" link, Mail pops up as the default app as opposed to me being able to respond inside whatever I am presently using. How do I keep this from happenning? Thanks for the help to all who respond to this.
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Ernie,
Thanks for your reply.
Well I am not trying to use any e-mail clients at this moment. All I am doing is using hotmail, or yahoo mail for e-mail. This little problem happens only when I click on an embedded link inside of an email that I recieved, that is prompting me to repond via email, i.e. "click here to email tech support". If I do this the Mail client in OS X comes popping up when all I wanted was the "compose email" section of yahoo or hotmail to actually come up so I can type the email. Does this help clarify my issue? Thanks again for your help.
Louis

After install, Firefox sets itself as default to open all kinds of files. How do I prevent this. I don't want it as default for anything except browser.

For example, after install of most recent version 32.0.1 Firefox logo was attached to all my pdf files. I only want to firefox as a browser, not to open videos, pics or pdf's. I went to default program option in start menu but there are so many file types I don't know what should be opening. I simply deleted firefox and everything went back to normal.

Note that this would possibly only happen when Firefox is set as the default browser and only should happen if there isn't another application set to handle these file type.
Firefox inspects some registry keys to check that and if a program is registered via other registry keys then Firefox may think that there isn't a program to handle these content types.
You can use the registry editor to check some keys.
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I don't want "Mail" to open when I respond to website, instead I want Earthlink mail to send the response

Hi, newbie here. I do not use Apple "Mail" (nor do I want to). Problem: in websites I respond/click to respond and "Mail" automatically opens up. How do I configure the MacBook Pro 10.7 to not go to the default of "Mail?" I have looked at mail preferences and it gives me the option of "mail" in the general section or choose; when I hit choose I get my apps etc and do not see how I would indicate to use my earthlink email or charter email as defaults. Any suggestions?

You can't select Web Based email for this purpose. You have to chose a email prgram on your computer.
What you would need to do is copy the email address and then go to youe Web Based email and send from that.

Don't want mail account to sync with online email account

I just got a new mac mini and will soon quit using my imac that I bought around 2006 10.6.8.
I am setting up Mail.
Can I get it to work the way my old mail did.
The problem
In the past my gmail would download to mail and if I deleted an email on my computer in Mail, it would delete. I have 1172 old emails online on my gmail account and I want to keep them there. Now when I deleted the messages that downloaded on my computer mail program, they reappear. It seems as if it is syncing with what is online.
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It's nice to have the new mini mac but I have to figure out what is different, especially on programs that I use a lot.
backed up my documents, music and photos and more on an external hardrive. I would like to transfer folders and the emails they contain from the old mac. Does anyone know how I find them? I basically put all the files in home folder on the external drive. I didn't know if I would find them under Library or what.
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I had it set as imap and did not realize it. it was Pop that I wanted. Now it is pop and I am getting what I want. Thanks.

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Oooo !
Just found this on another discussion page:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120820003211714
haven't tried it yet butit may be THE ANSWER
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Hi ctconnor;
Since there are no virus for OS X, I seriously doubt that is what is causing your problem here.
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I DON'T want attachments to show in the text of the Mail email

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Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
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*Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
*AdwCleaner: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml
*SuperAntispyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/
*Microsoft Safety Scanner: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
*Windows Defender: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender
*Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
*Kasperky Free Security Scan: http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
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*Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller: http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
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*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked

Mountain Lion has discovered I have a Google Mail account. I don't want my iCloud/Mac/iCal linked to Googlemail's calendar. How do I separate them?

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