Yup. That's the correct answer. Gmail notifier.


More details for ya, Doug:

Since Gmail is a web-based mail system that doesn't use any "client" at all, then the concept of a "default mail client" on the system doesn't really make sense to Windows in that situation.

This is an interesting little dilemma. There are many perfectly valid web based mail systems (including microsoft's own systems), and I think you should be able to configure Windows to say "my default mail client is a web site". Maybe you can, I'm not sure how though.

Anyway, the two ways around it are:

- Install an application that is meant to access the web based mail system, and make that application your default client. As mentioned before, this is one of the great uses for the Gmail Notifier applet. I like this applet a lot, and it works well.

- Configure your web based email so that it can be accessed with a regular mail client (I'm pretty sure gmail allows POP and IMAP access these days), and then add another account to Outlook to connect to Gmail instead of your other Alaska ISP.