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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
