If you’ve ever been browsing on a Mac and clicked a mailto: link, you may have discovered that it often tends to default to the Mail app. If you want to use Gmail (or another email service) you need to make a few changes. To be clear, the problem isn’t with opening links in another email client like Outlook or Thunderbird. A native macOS email client for Gmail Mimestream combines your favorite Gmail features with the power of a native macOS app so you can move through your email effortlessly. Requires macOS 10.15 Catalina or later.

You can read your messages from Gmail in other mail clients, like Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail, using IMAP. When you use IMAP, you can read your Gmail messages on multiple devices, and messages are synced in real time.

Set up IMAP

Step 1: Check that IMAP is turned on:

1. On your computer, open Gmail.
2. In the top right, click Settings.
3. Click Settings.
4. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
5. In the “IMAP Access” section, select Enable IMAP.
6. Click Save Changes.

Step 2: Change your IMAP settings in your email client

Use the table below to update your client with the correct information. For help updating your settings, search your email client’s Help Center for instructions on setting up IMAP.

Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server	imap.gmail.com Requires SSL: Yes Port: 993
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server	smtp.gmail.com Requires SSL: Yes Requires TLS: Yes (if available) Requires Authentication: Yes Port for SSL: 465 Port for TLS/STARTTLS: 587
Full Name or Display Name
Account Name, User name, or Email address	Your full email address
Password	Your Gmail password

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