[MlMt] Can't change default mail app in OS X 10.11.4

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Mon Mar 28 09:14:23 EDT 2016


On 28 Mar 2016, at 9:36, Jan Vanvinkenroye wrote:

>> Has anyone else noticed that when you try to change the default mail 
>> app in OS X 10.11.4, it seems to revert back to Mail.app?
>
> I observed the same behavior with Mailmate on my systems. At work we 
> do have purcharsed an apple care support plan and
> I asked them what to do about that. The aswer was:
>
> Executeing
>
> „/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister 
> -kill -r -all local,system,user“
>
> and then setting mailmate as the default client on Mail.app.

I also described this as a workaround for Apple in my bug report 
(October 2015), but it has side effects since you also lose other 
changes, e.g., your “Open with” preferences.

I think we can safely conclude now that Apple does not really consider 
this bug a significant problem :-)

-- 
Benny


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