On Feb 22, 2012, at 3:14 PM, John Musbach wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:07 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 22 Feb 2012, at 14:15 , Macs R We wrote:
>>> The control for this, obscurely enough, is in Apple Mail preferences.
>> 
>> Well, she doesn’t use Apple Mail. There’s no accounts setup in it, and the 
>> Default Mailer does not allow a setting of “GMail”, so I’m not sure how that 
>> will help.
> 
> Despite there being no accounts in Mail, it looks like that's where
> the desired setting lies
> (http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_set_my_default_email_program_on_mac_os_x.html)
> so you just need to step through the wizard with some madeup values to
> get at the Mail preferences. GMail is not a client in of itself (web
> interface doesn't count here) so it makes sense that wouldn't be a
> option, your mom needs to setup GMail's IMAP service in something like
> Thunderbird and then just set that client to be the default.


Why not just set up GMails IMAP service in Mail?

Chad

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