On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 10, 2010, at 21:35, Michael Goerz wrote: >> I've set up Mailplane as my default mail client, and this works fine >> [...] >> 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. > 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. I see... that's a bit disappointing from Apple's side, although I guess mail clients can be pretty different in the capabilities, so it would be tricky to require them all to submit to a certain interface.
Is there the possibility of allowing the user to put some Applescript somewhere in his Library folder to extend the feature to an arbitrary mail client? I haven't checked out Mailplane Applescript API, if it has one, but I probably wouldn't mind to write some lines to enable the functionality >> 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. Yes, I'm sure it's something in my preferences. I hate Mail.app, so I wasn't going to bother with it unless there was no other way. Actually, the white-on-white problem suddenly, magically, disappeared (after installing Mailsmith for testing, it seems?). In any case, I had Mail.app configured to write text-only mails. It seems that the mails generated by Bibdesk are still rich-text despite of this setting (but now, black on white). The problem may have had to do with that: maybe something was screwed up in the rich-text-settings. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
