revMail fails on some Macs

David Squance dsquance at elkvalley.net
Tue Jan 18 23:56:02 EST 2005


On Jan 18, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> What exactly does the Mac need to ensure that there is an email client 
> automatically will be invoked by revMail? I can't find any preference 
> in OS X for "default mail app" that requires setting. No more internet 
> config and apple has this bizarre requirment to set the default 
> browser from within Safari, which one has to boot to say, choose 
> Firefox... but I don't see any option to set a default email app that 
> the scripting extensions would use. and I also don't know exactly what 
> to test for to determine with other missing parts there may be... 
> possible the GURL even is not handled on his machine? But I though 
> apple script and events would be auto loaded by default for anyone 
> using OSX.

There may be a similarly bizarre connection with OS X Mail.  Check the 
preferences for it.  There's a place there to set the default email 
reader.  I know if affects which email program Safari uses, but beyond 
that, I can't say if that will help.
Dave



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