Setting Airmail as the Default Email Client

Airmail
1 min readOct 14, 2015

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If you prefer to use Airmail instead of Apple’s Mail app, you can set it as the default mail client with these simple steps:

  1. Open the Mail App

2. Go to Mail preferences (⌘,)

3. Under the General Tab, choose Airmail 2 from the Default email reader dropdown list.

Close the Mail app

To make sure Airmail is the default client, you can check in Airmail’s preferences under the General Tab.

Troubleshooting

If the Mail app doesn’t save your new preference, do the following:

  1. Close the Airmail App
  2. Open Mail App
  3. Go to Mail preferences (⌘,)
  4. Under the General Tab, choose Select from the dropdown list.
  5. This will open a Finder windows in the Applications folder. Choose Airmail 2 and click select.
  6. Close the Mail app

In Yosemite you must use the Apple Mail settings:

IMPORTANT
If is not working follow this link

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/14502

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