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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: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 00:58:22 -0400

Interesting, however, given Paul Berkowitz' response and, further, do you suppose there's a limited space made available for the name of the mailer, or is it just that the -5 is not a reliable measure? Clearly, determining system defaults is not a trivial pursuit.

On 2/6/06, Todd Geist <email@hidden> wrote:
10.4.4

defaultApp for "mailto"

-->  "Microsoft Entou"

Which is both incomplete and wrong since my default Mail App is Apple
Mail.

It used to be "Microsoft Entourage"

:<(



On Feb 6, 2006, at 4:20 PM, kai wrote:

> -------------------
>
> on defaultApp for i
>       set p to POSIX path of (path to preferences) &
> "com.apple.LaunchServices.plist "
>       tell application "System Events" to set i to value of property
> list item ¬
>               "LSBundleSignature" of property list item 1 of property list item ¬
>               ("U:" & i) of property list item "LSPrefsBindings" of property
> list file p
>       tell application "Finder" to (get name of application file id i)'s
> text 1 thru -5
> end defaultApp
>
> -------------------

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Todd Geist
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