[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
More information about the mailmate
mailing list