I have tested this now and it works fine as far as opening CE. Next to get a new mail to open with the address. Regards Neville
>Hi All, > > >I tried making an alias of CE and putting that ijn Tiger applications >folder >but it didn't work. Too much to expect it to be that simple I guess. >There has to be some simple way to do this though. Actually isn't this a >breach of some legal requirement similar to the OE thing with M$oft ? > >This seems to hold... >Make an app in automator which opens CE. >Save that app in the Tiger apps folder. >Chage Mail default to be that app. (eg CE.app) >Havn't tested it but at least mail retains the setting. > >Regards Neville >>>Thanks to everyone who contributed to the clarification of this problem. >>> >>>I posted the same question on Apple's "Using OSX Tiger" forum. The reply >>>I got included a link to emailer-talk archives - March 2006, where Chris >>>reported it was not possible any longer in Tiger ! >> >>Great, so now the "official" and "final" word on the subject is based on >>a post that I made saying I couldn't get it to work, and that it didn't >>appear to work any more in Tiger using Apple's tools to set the pref. >> >>I don't know specifically which email you were pointed to, but I know >>when I last looked into it, I found it didn't work with Apple's pref >>settings. But I know that I do NOT know all of the details of why it >>didn't work, and I don't know that it can't be overridden by hacking the >>plist manually (although ISTR that I tried that and failed, but I may >>have done it wrong). >> >>I also seem to recall thinking (and possibly saying) the same thing that >>I believe Dave said yesterday... there would be nothing stopping someone >>from writing an AppleScript that gets set as the default mail client, and >>that script captures the mailto GURL event and passes it along to Emailer. >> >> >>So yeah, the "official" word on the subject is based off a person that >>never wrote out the possibility that Emailer can still be set as the >>default mail client. Strikes me as kind of like how laughable it is that >>"facts" are now being proven by linking to Wiki entries... and Wiki >>entries are written arbitrarily by people with validation of any of the >>claims. >> >>Lovely society we have gotten ourselves into. How long before no one has >>any idea what truth is anymore! >> >>-chris >><http://www.mythtech.net> >> >>___________________________________________________________________________ >>To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
