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Change the default mail client without using Mail
Authored by: fitzage on Jul 19, '05 10:35:51AM

It's not that Apple is forcing you to use their programs to do this, it's that other browser/email app developers (aside from Omni) aren't implementing this feature in their browsers.



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Change the default mail client without using Mail
Authored by: encro on Jul 19, '05 11:02:59AM

Camino 0.9a2 pre-release alpha also includes this feature so it wil be available when 0.9 is eventually released.



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Re: Change the default mail client without using Mail
Authored by: Uncle Asad on Jul 19, '05 11:15:35AM
Eudora has had the ability to set itself as the default for several minor-point updates now. On the browser front, Camino, Firefox, and iCab nightlies/alphas/betas have this (Camino since last year, Firefox and iCab in the last month).

That said, there was no good reason to move a system pref out of the System Prefs and into Apple's apps, except to reinvent the wheel and make app vendors reinvent the wheel, too (or force you to use Apple's apps at least once).

In addition to MoreInternet and RCDefaultApp, MisFox also does this and lets you set file/extension/MIME type mappings in InternetConfig (which Carbon apps still use for mapping downloads)....

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