Re: reading preferences from com.apple.mail under 10.8
Re: reading preferences from com.apple.mail under 10.8
- Subject: Re: reading preferences from com.apple.mail under 10.8
- From: "Reimers, Gabriel" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:44:48 +0000
- Thread-topic: reading preferences from com.apple.mail under 10.8
In Mountain Lion Mail is a sandboxed app. Therefore it now stores it's
preferences in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences
Gabriel
On 02.08.12 07:44, "email@hidden"
<email@hidden> wrote:
>On Jul 31, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Rob McBroom <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>Hello. I¹m trying to read Mail¹s preferences to find a suitable SMTP
>>server so users don¹t have to re-enter such configuration details. It
>>seems to have stopped working and I can¹t find a [documented] reason.
>
>Probably Mail changed where it stores that pref. It might be under a
>different key, or it might be stored in another domain entirely.
>
>App defaults keys are not public, so you're relying on undocumented
>internal behavior of Mail, that could (and did!) change at any time.
>
>A more supported way to get that info might be to query Mail's scripting
>interface using an AppleScript or the scripting bridge API.
>
>‹Jens
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