I've added support for Mailplane for tomorrows nightly, please test it out and 
report back whether it works.

Christiaan

On Aug 10, 2010, at 23:02, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> 
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 21:35, Michael Goerz wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I've set up Mailplane as my default mail client, and this works fine
>> for whenever I click on a 'mailto' link on the web, when I use the
>> Address Book in MacOS, etc.
>> 
>> However, when I try to send some references from inside BibDesk (right
>> click, "Send Selection via Email"), this does not honor the default
>> mail client setting: Instead of Mailplane, Mail.app opens. I think I've
>> seen the same behavior in applications that have a similar feature for
>> emailing something from inside the app (although I don't have a
>> specific example right now), so this may not be a bug in Bibdesk.
>> Nonetheless, I haven't found any setting either in Bibdesk or on my
>> system to change this behavior. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>> 
> 
> We can only send emails using a limited number of clients (Mail, Entourage, 
> and Mailsmith). This is because we have to target each client specifically 
> using AppleScript specific for that client. So we can only target the email 
> clients for which we (or someone whose code we can copy) know their 
> AppleScript support. You should realize that there is no generic method to 
> send email using an arbitrary email client, except perhaps if you just want 
> to send plain text. (There does exist a protocol for that, but AFAIK there 
> does not exist a single email client that supports it beyond the minimum, so 
> i's useless for our purposes.)
> 
>> On top of that, the email that are being generated in Mail.app are
>> broken, with white text on white background, which is completely
>> unusable.
>> 
> 
> I don't see that problem. We also for sure don't set any text attributes in 
> the mail. So you must have some weird preference set somewhere.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
> 


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