[MlMt] Opening .eml files?

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On 3 Nov 2017, at 12:38, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 3 Nov 2017, at 14:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> I copied a MailMate message to a folder. When I opened finder, the 
>> message showed as a .eml file; when I double-clicked on it, it opened 
>> Mail.app, which is not what I wanted.  Will MailMate do the right 
>> thing if I change the default app for .eml files to point to 
>> MailMate?
>
> Yes.

Thanks.
>
>> If so, could/should that be made the default when MailMate is 
>> installed?
>
> This is controlled by the system and not by MailMate. All MailMate can 
> do is to tell the system that it can handle `.eml` files.
>

Hmm -- are browsers special? Firefox knows when it isn't the default 
browser.

Regardless, I'll change my default; thanks!

         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb