On 8 Nov 2012, at 17:37, Benny Kj?r Nielsen wrote: > On 8 Nov 2012, at 22:34, Seebs wrote: > >> On 8 Nov 2012, at 15:28, John Roberts wrote: >> >>> This does not work with all applications. Emailing photos from >>> Aperture, for example, opens the Apple Mail.app. is there a way to >>> set MailMate as the default mail client for all applications? >> >> My guess is no, because some apps may not have so much a default as a >> hard-coded choice. Same thing happens to me with some other stuff; on >> Windows, I have one or two programs which will ALWAYS open IE, no >> matter what my default browser is. > > Yes, the default email application is only used when the ?calling? > application uses the `mailto:` URL scheme. Some applications use > Applescript to communicate with a hardcoded email client. In some > cases it is possible to replace such a script to call MailMate instead > of Apple Mail. This was true for iCal on Lion, but it changed on > Mountain Lion where this no longer seems to be possible :-(
Clearly I compose mail too slowly :) I could have sworn that the iCal script replacement hack went away with Snow leopard, but it may just have been that *MY* scripts broke. Wouldn't be the first time... Incidentally: there really isn't "blame" for this problem. Using the "URL scheme handler" model as a basis for swapping out default apps is generally a good idea, keeping the interfaces simple and defined by open standards. The downside of that with "mailto:"; is that it's a very limiting scheme that comes nowhere near mapping the whole task of composing mail. Apple isn't being evil and developers aren't being lazy, it's just an inherently sticky problem.
