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Re: Determining the Default Mail App
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Re: Determining the Default Mail App


  • Subject: Re: Determining the Default Mail App
  • From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:21:19 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Determining the Default Mail App

Title: Re: Determining the Default Mail App
You can get rid of more Applescript by setting the opening delimiter to \\. Instead of \"
So:
do shell script "defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices | sed -n '/mailto;/{s/.*\\.\\(.*\\)\".*/\\1/p;}' "

--> entourage

-- Gnarlie


Entity Adam Bell spoke thus:

Nothing more than replacing 'mailto' with 'http' did the trick:

do shell script "defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices | sed -n '/http;/{s/.*\"\\(.*\\)\".*/\\1/p;}' "

--> "org.mozilla.camino "

so, at least in 10.4.4, this gets both the default browser and the default emailer:

set DI to {"mailto", "http"}
set _defaults to {}
repeat with aI in DI
    set D to (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices | sed -n '/" & aI & ";/{s/.*\"\\(.*\\)\".*/\\1/p;}' ")
    set {TID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, "."}
    set end of _defaults to text item 3 of D
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID
end repeat
_defaults --> {"eudora", "camino"}

On 2/6/06, Gnarlodious <email@hidden> wrote:
Same here, 10.4.4.
10.3 had an entirely different system for keeping track of the default apps,
this method will not work on 10.3.x.
I don't even remember what the 10.3 system is like. I believe the pertinent
file is at
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

If you post the part of that file that has the email app I'll try to work it
out.

Adam:
You can get the default browser by replacing “mailto” with “http”. My output
does not have a 3 line text block. I’d suggest keeping it simple until the
hotdoggers at Apple get LaunchServices hammered out.

Be sure to post your final result so I can use it too.

-- Gnarlie


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