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10.3: Setting default web and mail clients in Panther
Authored by: jonahlee on Oct 29, '03 11:43:22PM

Personally I think that Apple has made an awful decision in removing the Internet Control panel, and I quickly have complained to Apple about it, and hope others do so.

To me you should be able to set the system wide settings in the location where you set the rest of the system wide settings, in the System Preferences. Moving this to applications seems to me to be a way to force users to at least try out Apple applications, which I don't think you should be forced into. And yes there are 3rd party applications that allow you to set protocals, but they are not as easy to set and don't have the pop up menu's with all your web browsers and e-mail programs, and it seems Apple no longer cares to let you set the default Newsreader at all unless you use a third party utility.

Fine if Apple wants us to be able to set the default mail, browser and download locations in their own apps, but they should leave us the ability to set them in the universal location that has been the location that we set these settings in, not only in OS X, but also in OS 9.

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- Jonah Lee

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10.3: Setting default web and mail clients in Panther
Authored by: Wonko9 on Nov 02, '03 04:40:24AM

My problem isn't the hassle of not being able to set the default Browser or Mail client, but setting the default Outgoing Mail Server. Other applications rely on this information. For example, Kung-Log looks there to see what outgoing mail server it should use. There is no DEFAULT outgoing mailserver in Mail, so there is no way for Kung-Log (or any other application) to know what to use. Removing the Internet Control Panel was a bad idea.



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