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<p>Benny Kjær Nielsen JUST wrote:</p>
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<p>The solution is to do this using MailMate instead. In the General preferences pane (⌘,).</p>
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<p>I can confirm: this works flawlessly here. My results are now the same as those of Amiram and Thomas rather than of Zvi.</p>
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<p>This thread shows that MailMate should automatically detect that the user has set MailMate as the default mailto: application and then offer to do the same for message:, mid:, and cid: (if they are not assigned to MailMate).</p>
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<p>“Should” in the sense of “in the best of all possible worlds”, sure. But the current situation is scarcely horrific.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately the developer seems to still be on vacation ;-)</p>
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<p>Hmm. Seems to me the developer isn’t in fact applying himself to the tasks intrinsic to vacationing with sufficient diligence. Get off the message boards, Benny, & back to the beach! (And if you have kids, watch out: when I was last in Thailand, at age 8, a taxi driver offered to buy me from my parents for ฿5. Fortunately, my parents held out for more....)</p>
<p>— Erik</p>
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