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The problem is not adding an account, but the fact that you can't open Mail to change the default email client without first configuring an email account in Mai

The problem is not adding an account, but the fact that you can't open Mail to change the default email client without first configuring an email account in Mail... which you're not going to use because you were trying to switch to a different client in the first place!

detourdog 3y ago
* To change settings in Mail, you must first have added an email account in Mail. If you don't want to do that, open the other email app that you want to use, then check its settings for a similar way to set the default email reader. This is at the bottom of this page. I still don't understand the problem. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201607 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201607
- allarm 3y ago
  The problem has been explained very clearly in multiple comments, from different perspectives. You should try really really hard to not understand it at this point.
  - detourdog 3y ago
    I understand the issue now. I admit it took me longer than most people to understand. I hope you can admit that it is a very subtle issue. This is Apple babysitting their users. Apple needs to make sure that if their customer think that email is configured certain services are active. If an Apple customer has to make sure that each service is configured and it should be done by whatever email client the customer chooses. I disagree that the issue is severe. My assumption is that if one is setting up another email application the host operating system assuming they will provide the users of the alternative email client will also provide the mechanism for making it the default email client. That is not an unreasonable assumption for the host OS to make in my view. Email is a little different than browsers in at least 2 respects The biggest difference is that an established legal precedent that a host OS should provide a direct interface for selecting the default browser. The browser is also a single protocol application http:. The second is that an email client is multiple protocols. Do you want different default accounts depending if it's pop or imap? What about sending which accounts to do you to use and how. All of these options are in Mail.app and I have used many variations where default account might not cut it. I'm also willing to drop the whole thing because I bet at some point it won't be an issue if it is an issue.

detourdog 3y ago

* To change settings in Mail, you must first have added an email account in Mail. If you don't want to do that, open the other email app that you want to use, then check its settings for a similar way to set the default email reader. This is at the bottom of this page. I still don't understand the problem. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201607 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201607

allarm 3y ago
The problem has been explained very clearly in multiple comments, from different perspectives. You should try really really hard to not understand it at this point.
- detourdog 3y ago
  I understand the issue now. I admit it took me longer than most people to understand. I hope you can admit that it is a very subtle issue. This is Apple babysitting their users. Apple needs to make sure that if their customer think that email is configured certain services are active. If an Apple customer has to make sure that each service is configured and it should be done by whatever email client the customer chooses. I disagree that the issue is severe. My assumption is that if one is setting up another email application the host operating system assuming they will provide the users of the alternative email client will also provide the mechanism for making it the default email client. That is not an unreasonable assumption for the host OS to make in my view. Email is a little different than browsers in at least 2 respects The biggest difference is that an established legal precedent that a host OS should provide a direct interface for selecting the default browser. The browser is also a single protocol application http:. The second is that an email client is multiple protocols. Do you want different default accounts depending if it's pop or imap? What about sending which accounts to do you to use and how. All of these options are in Mail.app and I have used many variations where default account might not cut it. I'm also willing to drop the whole thing because I bet at some point it won't be an issue if it is an issue.