<![CDATA[Setting Opera to open Mac Mail as the default client]]>If you click on a contact email address on a website in ALL other browsers, your email client (in my case Mac Mail) automatically launches with a new email to be sent to that address. Opera doesn't seem to do this, and I'm baffled why not.

I google the problem until I'm blue in the face but I still haven't come across a solution, so here are my questions:

  1. Is there a way to set this up in Opera?

  2. If there isn't why doesn't Opera use such a protocol - ALL other browsers do?

  3. if Opera even aware that some of us users regard this as a problem?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/45703/setting-opera-to-open-mac-mail-as-the-default-clientRSS for NodeFri, 06 Mar 2026 19:38:58 GMTWed, 09 Dec 2020 15:59:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Setting Opera to open Mac Mail as the default client on Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:36:07 GMT]]>Solved
This also drove me crazy looking for a solution.
Open preferences for the Mail app. (Click dropdown menu Mail|Preferences)
Then change Default Mail Reader to Mail.
Restart the browser.

Now when you click on a mailto link, the mac mail app will open.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/239283https://forums.opera.com/post/239283Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:36:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Setting Opera to open Mac Mail as the default client on Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:52:19 GMT]]>@pfgpowell I mean in Mac settings. I suppose you can set which program will handle a protocol or file type.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/236282https://forums.opera.com/post/236282Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:52:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Setting Opera to open Mac Mail as the default client on Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:50:55 GMT]]>@leocg

Which 'mailto' protocol? If Opera has one, I can't find the settings. And IF there is a user setting, Opera should make it a damn sight more obvious. That's the whole point of posting here. I googled 'Opera mailto' settings and nothing has come up.
Just had Another check and Nowhere in 'Advanced' is there a setting to set the mailto protocol. For all I know there might be one in the Windows version of Opera but I use Macs.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/236266https://forums.opera.com/post/236266Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:50:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Setting Opera to open Mac Mail as the default client on Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:41:01 GMT]]>@pfgpowell Is Mac Mail set as the default handler for mailto protocol?

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