Jul 4, 2020

How to add gmail as default mailto handler?

I had a webmail handler previously listed as default - I removed it and now there seems to be no mailto link handler at all.

So when I click on some website's 'get in touch' link, nothing seems to happen.

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david.king

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Jul 5, 2020

Hi Akshit,

Let's try these steps:

Close any open Gmail tabs.
Type chrome://settings/handlers into your address bar and press enter.
Remove any entries shown here.
Make sure "Allow sites to ask to become default handlers for protocols" is enabled.
Close this tab.
Launch Gmail and you should now see a diamond icon at the right of the address bar. Click that to set Gmail as your default email handler.

If you don't see the diamond icon to the right if the address bar, you may need to quit and relaunch Chrome for the change to take effect.

Last edited Nov 8, 2020

Chrome Noob

Aug 14, 2020

chrome://settings/handlers

get there and remove all then open GMAIL and click on the eye icon

Francis Kovscek

Aug 31, 2020

From above:

chrome://settings/handlers

get there and remove all then open GMAIL and click on the eye icon

Follow-up

the eye icon is in the web page address bar in the far right side of the address bar for the open gmail tab

Last edited Aug 31, 2020

Valerie Crute

Sep 2, 2020

Thank you, David King.

Lynn Cappon

Sep 16, 2020

I have the same problem. All I get is "Allow sites to ask to become default handlers for protocols (recommended)"

Can someone tell us how you fixed it?

Elon Fischer

Sep 18, 2020

I had the same problem. I followed Francis's solution (I, too, had a blank screen under email handlers) and it seems to have solved the problem.

Tom Simpson 4284

Sep 20, 2020

I followed Francis Kovscek's steps above and they worked perfectly!:

1. go to : chrome://settings/handlers

2. get there and remove all email entries

3. then open GMAIL and click on the eye icon

(the eye icon is in the far right side of the address bar for the open gmail tab)

George Symes

Oct 13, 2020

That worked a treat for me. Thank you very much!
George

Peter Boffo

Oct 17, 2020

Me too, gmail showed up in the handlers list no problem.

The end of faith

Oct 28, 2020

david.king Thank you this was very helpful

plushkrazee

Nov 1, 2020

I have same issue. Handler says mail.google.com but gmail does not open on websites. Some other email program does on my Windows 10 laptop that I don't recognize. Could it be Outlook? If so, how do I change it? I have never used it in the 5 years I have owned my laptop. Unfortunately, there is not always an email address listed on some websites only a button so no go around.

Terry Metz

Nov 3, 2020

I can find no "eye" icon in my Gmail address bar for making the gmail connection.

Follow Up: OK. I see I needed to open a completely new instance of gmail after restarting Chrome. I have Chrome set to open my Gmail tab on startup. Even then, no "eye" or "diamond" icon appeared in the Gmail address bar. I had to open a completely new tab and type search "generically" for gmail. At that that point the icon I was seeking appeared. At that. point I could make the Gmail selection as my default email "handler" within Chrome. I'm on Mac OS BTW.

Last edited Nov 3, 2020

Michael Ovesen

Nov 8, 2020

Hint to find 'Handlers' (Håndtering) in the Danish Chrome browser:

I used some time to find out where to find the Chrome Handlers settings in the latest Danish Chrome version via the GUI is located on 'Sikkerhed og Privatliv' --> 'Indstillinger for websites' --> 'Yderligere tilladelser' ---> Håndtering.

This location can also be directly by typing:

chrome://settings/handlers

From Handlers you can remove any incorrect settings and then mailto: work be setup as you want

There are lot of other articles how to do this :-)