When you click on email addresses listed on webpages, you might find that your computer tries to open Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, or Apple Mail to email the contact. You can instead have your Stony Brook Google Mail open in Chrome as your default mail program. Here's how:

Setting Google Mail as the Default Mail Program

1. Open Google Chrome 

2. Sign in to your Stony Brook Google Mail at www.stonybrook.edu/mycloud

If appears in the address bar

3. In the right side of the address bar, click , select Use Stony Brook University Mail, and click Done and that's it.

   

If does not appear in the address bar:

4. Click the  or  icon in the top-right corner of Google Chrome

5. Click on Settings

6. At the bottom of the Settings page, click on Show advanced settings...

7. In the Privacy section, click on

8. Scroll to the Handlers section and be sure the Allow sites to ask to become default handlers for protocols option is selected

9. Click on 

10. If appears in the Ignored protocol handlers list, click X to the right to remove it from that list

11. Click Ok

12. Repeat steps 1-3