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Connected to your web-mail account like white on rice? Loathe the idea of accessing, sending, and managing your mail accounts via POP / IMAP? Would you rather do all of the aforementioned tasks from your favorite web-mail client and have all mailto: links open in Gmail, AOL, MSN, Hotmail, Yahoo, or .Mac? If you’re that type of email users, check out Webmailer [via] which provides a System Preference pane for managing your default email client tasks and redirecting said needs online.

Ever click on a mailto: link, only to scream in frustration as Apple Mail opens yet again? The curse of the webmail user is that there is no way to get around this problem. That is, until now.

Webmailer is an unoriginally named program (actually a preference pane) for Mac OS X that allows you to fix this problem. You can set it to open any URL or run any shell script, complete with the parameters lifted from the mailto link. Webmailer comes with links for several possible webmail sites, including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and several webmail programs, such as SquirrelMail or Roundcube. But you can always add your own configuration.

Make sure to download the correct releases as Webmailer is provided for both Panther and Tiger users. Webmailer provides support for a wide range of web based email services. If your favorite is not provided by default in preference pane, there is an option to add additional web-mail services.