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Google results, and Apple's own support articles, tell me that the only way to change the default mail application (since like 10.7), is to open Mail, go to 'Preferences', and change the default program. Cool, I want to set Outlook as my default mail client. So I'm on a corporate laptop, and like 95%+ of Fortune 500 companies (for better or worse) we use Outlook. Click the Windows Start button, then click the Default Programs item.Unless I'm missing something obvious, this is one of the more maddening anti-consumer things I've seen Apple do.Underneath Choose a default e-mail program, select Mozilla Thunderbird.In the Access and Defaults window, click on the Custom radio button to expand the Custom category.On the left side of the Window click the Set Program Access and Defaults icon.Click the Add or Remove Programs icon to open the Add or Remove Programs applet.Click the Windows Start button, then click on the Control Panel icon to open the Windows Control Panel.If you set Thunderbird to be the default mail client, other applications (such as your web browser or word processing application) may need to be restarted for the changes to take effect.When a box is grayed out, Thunderbird is already set as the default client for that purpose. If you want to set Thunderbird as the default client for e-mail, newsgroups or feeds, check the corresponding boxes and click OK.Click to check if Thunderbird is set as the default mail client immediately.

Make sure that 'Always check to see if Thunderbird is the default mail client on startup' is checked.

On the Advanced panel, select the General tab.

At the top of the Thunderbird window, click the Tools menu and select Options In the menu bar, click the Thunderbird menu and select Preferences At the top of the Thunderbird window, click the Edit menu and select Preferences, or click the menu button and choose Options Preferences.

Thunderbird can be configured to check if it is the operating system's default mail client each time it is started. Best free email client for windows 10 and macro recorder.