How do I get my browser to open Populi email links in my webmail program?

If you do not have a school email address, when you click an email link on a person's profile, your computer's default email program (Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, etc.) will open up. If you use web-based email (like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.), you can set up your browser to open an email link in that webmail service instead.

Disclaimer: The following links are provided as a courtesy to our users. They take you to sites not managed by Populi, and we cannot guarantee their accuracy or usefulness to you. That said, we do our best to provide helpful information, and if any of the links below lead to dead websites, please let us know and we'll try to update it.

Firefox

Follow the Mozilla Support instructions for how to change the way Firefox handles mailto: links.

Chrome 

Install the Mailto: Chrome extension; follow the instructions for how to set it up to open email links in your webmail program. You can also try what's described here.

Safari

Install the Mailto: Safari extension; follow the instructions for how to set it up to open email links in your webmail program.

Internet Explorer

Here are the instructions if you're using Windows 7, and these cover Windows 8.