Change the default mail client without using Mail

Jul 19, '05 08:23:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Having deleted Apple's Mail after upgrading to Tiger, I was stuck looking for a way to change the default email application to Thunderbird (my preferred client). As noted in this hint, Apple tries to force users to do this from within Mail. Thankfully, it turns out that you can also change this setting from within Internet Explorer 5.2

Just open Preferences, move down to the Network section, and look at Protocol Helpers. In there, you'll see the 'mailto' helper is set to Mail; just change it to your preferred client and you're done.

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