Comments on: Changing Mac OS X’s Default E-Mail Application http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/ Support and additional material related to how-to guides by Maria Langer. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:13:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mac http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-7672 Mac Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:28:19 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-7672 You can easily add an alternative mail app to the Print-PDF dialog (in OSX 10.6 anyway). When you click the PDF button, you'll see a choice to Edit Menu... Click this, then click the +, and you'll get a finder window. Navigate to the app you want to use and select it. If you like, you can then change the name of this menu item (e.g., from "Entourage" to "Mail via Entourage" as follows. Use finder to navigate to user\Library\PDF Services. In that folder, you'll see the shortcut you just created, and can rename it to whatever you like. That name will appear in your Print-PDF menu. Now, I'd sure like a solution to the automatic use of Mail.app for iCal invitations. You can easily add an alternative mail app to the Print-PDF dialog (in OSX 10.6 anyway). When you click the PDF button, you’ll see a choice to Edit Menu… Click this, then click the +, and you’ll get a finder window. Navigate to the app you want to use and select it. If you like, you can then change the name of this menu item (e.g., from “Entourage” to “Mail via Entourage” as follows.

Use finder to navigate to user\Library\PDF Services. In that folder, you’ll see the shortcut you just created, and can rename it to whatever you like. That name will appear in your Print-PDF menu.

Now, I’d sure like a solution to the automatic use of Mail.app for iCal invitations.

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-6601 Maria Langer Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:57:05 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-6601 Tom: You're right and Automator isn't the only Apple app that does this. I've had trouble with other apps insisting on Mail, too. Extremely annoying. Unfortunately, I don't know any way to fix this. I assume a system hack will do the trick, but I don't know what it might be. And since I use mail -- really! -- I've never had to track it down. Sorry I can't help you! Tom: You’re right and Automator isn’t the only Apple app that does this. I’ve had trouble with other apps insisting on Mail, too. Extremely annoying.

Unfortunately, I don’t know any way to fix this. I assume a system hack will do the trick, but I don’t know what it might be. And since I use mail — really! — I’ve never had to track it down. Sorry I can’t help you!

]]> By: Tom Demers http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-6594 Tom Demers Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:37:19 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-6594 Changing your default in Mail.app does not change it everywhere. Automator still opens Mail.app when selecting "Mail as PDF" from the Print dialog box. It seems there is no simple way to change this. If there is, I haven't found it yet. I'm running SparrowMail and want that to open instead, which it does for most things, but not Automator "stuff." Changing your default in Mail.app does not change it everywhere. Automator still opens Mail.app when selecting “Mail as PDF” from the Print dialog box. It seems there is no simple way to change this. If there is, I haven’t found it yet. I’m running SparrowMail and want that to open instead, which it does for most things, but not Automator “stuff.”

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1604 Maria Langer Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:18:01 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1604 Aldirley, I've never heard of a virus like that, but I suppose anything is possible. Did you click anything in the email? Any link? Clicking links in emails from strangers is definitely a no-no. But I don't think your computer can get a virus by just receiving an e-mail. Perhaps a talk to the folks at an Apple Genius Bar (in an Apple Store) might help? Good luck! Aldirley, I’ve never heard of a virus like that, but I suppose anything is possible. Did you click anything in the email? Any link? Clicking links in emails from strangers is definitely a no-no. But I don’t think your computer can get a virus by just receiving an e-mail.

Perhaps a talk to the folks at an Apple Genius Bar (in an Apple Store) might help? Good luck!

]]> By: Aldirley http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1603 Aldirley Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:46:55 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1603 I don't know if i am in the right place but...here it goes... I've received an e-mail in latin after wich my mac's mail client (the default one - MAIL)stops working...could that be a virus??? Any advices?? I don’t know if i am in the right place but…here it goes…
I’ve received an e-mail in latin after wich my mac’s mail client (the default one – MAIL)stops working…could that be a virus??? Any advices??

]]> By: Rishi http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1077 Rishi Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:20:20 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1077 hey everyone, just thought I would add to this post. I downloaded the Google Notifier for my Mac. Then in Mail set the default application to that. Now when I click on any email link online, the Gmail Notifier catches the click and launches the gmail web client.... try it out! hey everyone,

just thought I would add to this post.

I downloaded the Google Notifier for my Mac. Then in Mail set the default application to that. Now when I click on any email link online, the Gmail Notifier catches the click and launches the gmail web client….

try it out!

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1076 Maria Langer Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:08:06 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1076 Miles, thanks for adding this information. I think a lot of people will find it helpful. Miles, thanks for adding this information. I think a lot of people will find it helpful.

]]> By: Miles Leacy http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1075 Miles Leacy Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:48:43 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1075 For those who want gmail as their default mail client, note that Maria Langer's statement above is correct... "The default application has to be an application — not an e-mail service provider." To have gmail as your default, set up gmail in your mail application of choice, then open Mail.app and select your default mail application in Mail's preferences. If you're savvy to editing plist files, you could make the edit without launching Mail, but that's an advanced topic. Gmail's supported clients on the Mac as of the date of this post are: <b>IMAP</b>: Mail 2 (Tiger), Mail 3 (Leopard), Thunderbird 2. <b>POP</b>: Mail 3, Thunderbird 2.<b> Gmail has generic IMAP and POP instructions available, so you may be able to get other clients to work, but the apps noted above are supported by gmail. For those who want gmail as their default mail client, note that Maria Langer’s statement above is correct… “The default application has to be an application — not an e-mail service provider.”

To have gmail as your default, set up gmail in your mail application of choice, then open Mail.app and select your default mail application in Mail’s preferences. If you’re savvy to editing plist files, you could make the edit without launching Mail, but that’s an advanced topic.

Gmail’s supported clients on the Mac as of the date of this post are:

IMAP: Mail 2 (Tiger), Mail 3 (Leopard), Thunderbird 2.

POP: Mail 3, Thunderbird 2.

Gmail has generic IMAP and POP instructions available, so you may be able to get other clients to work, but the apps noted above are supported by gmail.

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1074 Maria Langer Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:47:02 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1074 The process I've outlined here -- changing the preference in Mail itself -- should work. There's no other place to change the default e-mail application. Are you sure that you chose the application you wanted, closed the Preferences window, and quit Mail? If Mail unexpectedly quit, the setting might not have been saved. Otherwise, I really don't know why it wouldn't work. Sorry I can't be more help. BTW, thanks for the plug on your blog; I think you'd get more comments there if you didn't require commenters to have an account and log in. The process I’ve outlined here — changing the preference in Mail itself — should work. There’s no other place to change the default e-mail application. Are you sure that you chose the application you wanted, closed the Preferences window, and quit Mail? If Mail unexpectedly quit, the setting might not have been saved. Otherwise, I really don’t know why it wouldn’t work. Sorry I can’t be more help.

BTW, thanks for the plug on your blog; I think you’d get more comments there if you didn’t require commenters to have an account and log in.

]]> By: Changing Mac OS X’s Default E-Mail Application | At Your Service Cincinnati, Ltd. http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1073 Changing Mac OS X’s Default E-Mail Application | At Your Service Cincinnati, Ltd. Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:13:41 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1073 [...] Maria’s Guides has a blog entry that I came upon during a recent search entitled “Changing Mac OS X’s Default E-mail Application.” [...] [...] Maria’s Guides has a blog entry that I came upon during a recent search entitled “Changing Mac OS X’s Default E-mail Application.” [...]

]]> By: Nora Rubinoff http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1072 Nora Rubinoff Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:47:45 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1072 I think this must be a little more complicated a process than just setting the default app in Mail.app. Even though I've set MailPlane to be my new default application for email, and I've indicated as such from within the General tab of Preferences in Leopard, Mail.app occasionally spontaneously pops up. I think it may be related to iCal, which I have set up to send email reminders for calendar entries. However, I do not see anywhere that I can tell iCal that MailPlane is now rocking my world rather than Mail.app. Nora Rubinoffs last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ays/~3/400107593/" rel="nofollow">Capture images from a web page on your iPhone</a> I think this must be a little more complicated a process than just setting the default app in Mail.app.

Even though I’ve set MailPlane to be my new default application for email, and I’ve indicated as such from within the General tab of Preferences in Leopard, Mail.app occasionally spontaneously pops up.

I think it may be related to iCal, which I have set up to send email reminders for calendar entries. However, I do not see anywhere that I can tell iCal that MailPlane is now rocking my world rather than Mail.app.

Nora Rubinoffs last blog post..Capture images from a web page on your iPhone

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1071 Maria Langer Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:22:44 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1071 Steve, let me try this again. I just re-read your message and realize that you're asking about Mac software. Sorry about the confusion. I use Mail. It comes with Mac OS and it does what I need to. There may be better solutions out there, but I'm really not up-to-speed on the options. I tend to stick with something I'm happy with. And the syncing through .Mac makes it very convenient for me to share e-mail accounts among desktop and laptops. I don't have any recommendations for CRM or project management software. Steve, let me try this again. I just re-read your message and realize that you’re asking about Mac software. Sorry about the confusion.

I use Mail. It comes with Mac OS and it does what I need to. There may be better solutions out there, but I’m really not up-to-speed on the options. I tend to stick with something I’m happy with. And the syncing through .Mac makes it very convenient for me to share e-mail accounts among desktop and laptops.

I don’t have any recommendations for CRM or project management software.

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1070 Maria Langer Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:09:52 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1070 Steve, since I'm not a full-time Windows user -- I only use Windows when I write books about Windows software products like Quicken or Excel -- I really don't have any answers to your questions. I'm primarily a Mac user, and judging by poll responses here, I'm willing to bet that most of this site's readers are also Mac users. You might get some responses if you post your question in a Windows user forum. Good luck! Steve, since I’m not a full-time Windows user — I only use Windows when I write books about Windows software products like Quicken or Excel — I really don’t have any answers to your questions. I’m primarily a Mac user, and judging by poll responses here, I’m willing to bet that most of this site’s readers are also Mac users.

You might get some responses if you post your question in a Windows user forum.

Good luck!

]]> By: Steve http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1069 Steve Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:50:25 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1069 Hi Maria, I am new to the Mac environment. Could you tell me which is the best email application (for business users) I like Outlook in Windows environment but find Entourage fails terribly. Also which is the best CRM application with project management module? Thx Hi Maria,

I am new to the Mac environment. Could you tell me which is the best email application (for business users) I like Outlook in Windows environment but find Entourage fails terribly.

Also which is the best CRM application with project management module?

Thx

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1068 Maria Langer Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:29:23 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/12/21/changing-mac-os-xs-default-e-mail-application/#comment-1068 The default application has to be an application -- not an e-mail service provider. Gmail is a service provider. I don't think they have a separate Gmail application (although I could be wrong). I'm going to have to look into this some more, since (believe it or not) I've never used Gmail. The default application has to be an application — not an e-mail service provider. Gmail is a service provider. I don’t think they have a separate Gmail application (although I could be wrong).

I’m going to have to look into this some more, since (believe it or not) I’ve never used Gmail.

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