Setting Outlook Web App to your default Mail app
This is an advanced article, please do not attempt without consulting with the support team first. Most email issues can be solved without this workaround.
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Chrome:
- Open Outlook for the Web in a Chrome tab (you must do this on an tab open to Microsoft Outlook tab)
- Open your javascript console (cmd-opt-j on Mac, ctrl-shift-j on Windows) and enter navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path=/mail/action/compose&mailtouri=%s","Outlook");
- Click "Allow" in the dialog which comes up.
- In Chrome preferences, navigate to chrome://settings/handlers. If Outlook is not already the default handler, click on the "3 dot" menu to the right of the Outlook entry. Pick "Set as default" to make Outlook the default handler.
If you ever need to remove this setting, you can do that by typing in chrome://settings/handlers in the Chrome browser bar, and removing Outlook.
Firefox:
- Open Outlook for the Web in a Chrome tab (you must do this on an Outlook tab)
- Open your javascript console (cmd-opt-j on Mac, ctrl-shift-j on Windows) and enter navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path=/mail/action/compose&mailtouri=%s","Outlook");
- Click "Allow" in the dialog which comes up.
If you ever need to remove this setting, you can do that by navigating to Preferences->Applications->mailto in Firefox, and removing Outlook.
