Change default email app?

TheBattman

TheBattman

I'd rather be fishin'
How in the world do you get your choice for default email program to stick in OS X?

I have finally gotten all of my contact info and old mail moved over to Entourage and changed the setting in the "internet" preference pane. Unfortunately, every so often, it resets itself to "Mail". I have manually reset it to "Entourage" twice today. I have not rebooted or logged out in that time.

So - how do I permanently change my default to Entourage? Delete Mail.app?
 
When does it do this switch over?

I know when I use OmniWeb I'll get Mail to open, but I also know that with Mozilla it'll open the Mozilla Mail program. You need to make sure all the browser preferences point to the appropriate mail program.

I can't wait until they (browsers) actually all use the internet preferences as dictated by the panel as opposed to creating their own standards.
But we'll table that complaint for another time.

Please elaborate on when and what happens to create the "switch".
 
Nothing really "happens" when it switches itself back. I will be working along and suddenly when I click to send a link, or click on an email link in Internet Explorer for some reason it will open Mail instead of using Entourage. There is no real rhyme or reason. Sometimes it will work as I want it to......
 
Open the following file in the text editor:
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Internet.prefPane/Contents /Resources/English.lproj/DefaultHelperApps.plist
and make sure the following lines are present:
{
DisplayName = "Entourage";
Info = { CreatorCode = "OPIM"; };
}

Now you might as well remove the similar reference to Mail.app, and it should be forever gone.

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