Want to open the Gmail website whenever you click on email links in various browsers on your Mac? In this article we are going to show you how to change your default Mail app to the Gmail website so that all of your future clicks on email links open there rather. The apple mail app stores a lot of local data on your Macbook for faster (and offline) access to your emails. When you don’t have an internet connection, or when the Internet is slow, data is read from that folder. If you don’t regularly clear the app data from its folder, the file access will start getting slow. Disconnect from the internet The first thing that you need to do is disconnect from the web. If you are using, turn it off. You need to this because the Mail app uses the internet to sync your mail over the web. The reason for slowness is the huge amount of data that it needs to download and process. Turning it off cuts the connection so the mail app would open faster. Delete Apple Mail app local storage Open Finder and press Command + Shift + G keys to use the “” command. Type ~/Library/Mail/V3 and press Enter. This command will take you to the local storage location of the Mail client. V3 is the folder name where all these files are stored. You can either delete these files or put them somewhere else. This is the folder from which the Mail app reads all of its data when you open it. If you are worried about any data loss, just rename the V3 folder to something like V3.backup, or V3.old. It doesn’t matter as long as it is renamed. Opening the Mail app won’t be so slow now. Use the Web interface to clean up older emails All of the mail is synced via the web, so the files you just moved (or deleted) files will be downloaded again if you don’t do anything. If these files are synced again, they will bloat the V3 folder again making the mail app slow again. To counter this behavior, you can use the web interface for the Mail platform that you use. All of the traditional mailing services have their respective websites where you can manage your emails. Head over to the one which you use and log into it. Delete all the emails and attachments that you don’t need. Further reading:. If you’d told me I would be writing about the best email app for the Mac in 2018 when I was in college, I’d have thought you were crazy. For as far as technology has come in the last twenty years, e-mail is still essential to our workflows. We’ve got pocket computers on our wrists and smartphones with 4GB of RAM, but e-mail is still required to live and work in the internet era. If you’d asked me in 2002, I would have assumed something else would replace it. I got my first email account in the mid–90s (When it was still $2.95 per hour for AOL). I stuck with AOL until I got an @comcast.net account when my parent’s first got high-speed internet. I switched to around 2002 (it was eventually acquired by AOL). I switched to Gmail in 2004 when it first launched, and then I finally switched to.Mac in 2005 when I got my first Mac (. I stuck with it during, and finally arrived at. One of the things about my use of email that is most surprising is that I’ve gone in the reverse with how technology has moved. In the early days of e-mail usage, I preferred using web-based mail, but as time went on, I preferred app based email. Part of that is that I am bringing in multiple accounts into one app (personal iCloud and multiple G-Suite accounts), but another aspect is that I prefer native apps. I think a lot of it has to do with iOS where native apps are the default. On the desktop, we’re moving everything to the web. As much as I love iOS, If you told me that I had to pick between macOS and iOS, I’d choose macOS. When it comes to my “heavy lifting” type work, I can get it done much faster than on my Mac.
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