Changing the default email reader

[Graeme Challis]

On 19/07/2007, at 5:00 AM, macosx-admin-request at omnigroup.com wrote:
> I want to change the default email program in Mac OS X. But  I
> cannot open the Preferences for Mail.app until I setup an account
> with their setup wizard.

give RCDefaultApp a whirl...

      <http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/>

 From the web page:
> RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that  
> allows a user to set the default application used for various URL  
> schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type  
> Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the extension  
> and file type settings to choose the application when opening a  
> file in Finder, while Safari and other applications use the URL and  
> MIME type settings at other times for content not related to a file  
> (such as an unknown URL protocol, or a media stream).

Cheers, Grae.
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