Re: making entourage my default email program
- From: Paul Berkowitz <berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:18:18 -0800
Well, you probably shouldn't delete Mail.app since it's part of the OS.
(Maybe some day Apple will face a lawsuit like Microsoft had with Internet
Explorer on Windows.) I wasn't aware you had to set up an account in
Mail.app - I think mine was probably set up automatically from that last
step when you install OS X and have to fill in internet info.
I'd guess that Apple did this as a proselytizing measure - to get people to
at least look at Mail before moving on to something else. Strange that it
didn't happen in the OS X version where Mail supplanted (Classic) Outlook
Express as default mail app, but one or two later. However, maybe it was
when Safari supplanted Internet Explorer as default browser? (That would be
Jaguar - OS 10.2.) You might recall that you could also set the various
sub-preferences (setting your default FTP client, etc.) from within IE both
back in OS 8/9 days and in 10.0-10.1 : in fact I think there were even a few
that could _only_ be set from IE in 10.0-10.1! Apple must have known they'd
be coming up with a new method. They knew they'd be dumping Internet Config,
I'm sure.
I suppose Apple could say that in OS 9 and 10.0-10.1 where they didn't
_have_ a built-in OS default browser and email app, they couldn't very well
have the prefs set anywhere but in a control panel/system preference, but
that now that they have default OS apps, it's only natural to make them full
defaults and do the changing there.
It still does feel odd, though.
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From: Allen Watson <watson.allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:47:18 -0800
Conversation: making entourage my default email program
Subject: Re: making entourage my default email program
What's the logic of this? I do not want to use Mail.app, but to set my
default to another app, I have to launch Mail and then _set up a mail
account in it_ just in order to access the preferences I want to change. And
I dare not _delete_ mail.app, but must keep it taking up space on my disk
just in case I ever need to reset that preference.
On 3/31/06 10:26 AM, in article C05332F8.147B4%m_bintener@xxxxxxxxxxx,
"Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's just that I'm slightly mad at Apple for
removing perfectly logical settings from the System Preferences, where the
average user might actually be able to find them, and for putting them
inside their own applications, which is not necessarily the first place that
springs to mind when you're trying to define non-Apple applications as
defaults.
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