How can I disable Mail.app when I click on an email address on mac?

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By default, clicking on an email address from another mac app (such as Slack) launches the Mail.app application in a compose view to that email address.

I would like to disable this - I never use the Mail.app and most times I encounter an email address I'd like to copy/paste it somewhere else, not compose an email to that person.

Is there a way to disable that behavior?

johncorser

Posted 2016-04-20T17:39:41.063

Reputation: 587

Please don't cross-post from one SE site to another. It's considered bad form. Pick one & stick with it. Ref: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/235598/how-can-i-disable-mail-app-when-i-click-on-an-email-address

– Tetsujin – 2016-04-20T18:16:11.623

My apologies. It seems like this one is being voted down, so I would remove it, but it also contains the correct answer whereas the other post does not. – johncorser – 2016-04-21T18:34:57.607

Yeah, this is a better answer. I'd leave both & see what happens, in this particular case. – Tetsujin – 2016-04-21T19:05:00.707

Answers

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Use RubiCode's RCDefaultApp (http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/) to configure the default handlers for different "protocols" like http:, mailto:, etc.

Not 100% positive that you can disable the protocol handler altogether, but you can definitely redirect it to something other than Mail.app.

jimtut

Posted 2016-04-20T17:39:41.063

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