How to configure Apple iCal to send email with Mozilla Thunderbird

[roderick]

Hi
I am using Leopard 10.5 and I would like to use iCal with thunderbird, cos I disable Apple Mail.
How to tell iCal which mail application or client to use?

Thanks

[kct1986]

I believe iCal will use the default mail client whichever that maybe. I used to Eudora and everything automatically linked to it be it from the browser or any other programs that needed to send emails.

[roderick]

It is not working. My default email is Thunderbird and iCAL is always attempting to use my Mail client.

[kct1986]

Ah yes, I was mistaken, iCal will only send invitations via Mail.app. Don't think you can change it. This was from the iCal Help "If you’ve set up Mac OS X Mail, you can use it to invite people to an iCal event."

[fabkk2002]

In fact iCal use some hidden applescript to send the invitation.

They are located in ical.app/contents/resources/scripts/mail.scpt.

Modify the part to achieve your goal:
on send_mail_sbrp(subjectLine, messageText, myrecipient, myrecipientname, invitationPath)

You need to be very careful. Make a copy of the original mail.scpt prior to any modification.

If you know applescript then you will be able to send it from ThunderBird.

This is I think the only way to do it

[roderick]

Thanks for your answer, but I moved back to Mail application, I found some advantages there.

[cubano100pct]

I tried Editing mail.scpt. All I changed was "Mail" to "Thunderbird", when I save it I got an error expecting a comma. I am on Mac OS 10.5.7.