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message URL handler hijacked by MailMate

#1508

Hi.

I have a problem... I'm using a script in Mail.app, to capture a link back to the current message for use as a reference to it in a FileMaker database. e.g. message://%3cD14D50F5-F558-4FDD-9C64-F931A5305ABF@xzyrobert.com%3e

The problem I'm having is that even though I've set 'Mail' as my "Default email reader" in Mail.app, MailMate is intercepting all calls to the 'message' url handler.

I've installed RCDefaultApp.prefPane to manually map the 'message' url handler to Mail.app, and this works temporarily. However, as soon as MailMate is launched or running, it seems to rewrite itself as the protocol handler for 'message'. It seems to me that it should be respecting the choice of "Default email reader". Is there some way to stop it setting itself as the default handler?

Cheers
Robert

Reported by Robert Black · August 21st, 2016 @ 01:59 AM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

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  1. Robert Black
    Robert Black

    BTW, I'm not discounting the possibility that this is the manifestation of a System bug, and nothing to do with MailMate, other than it's ability to handle the protocol.

    August 21st, 2016 @ 02:02 AM

  2. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to cantreproduce

    This might be related to the bug discussed here. Also read that for possible workarounds/fixes.

    But I'm not quite sure about that. It sounds like Apple Mail does stick as your default email client for mailto: URLs, but message: is still handled by MailMate. You should be able to fix that by using MailMate to configure Apple Mail as your default email client (given that you don't run into the bug that I linked to).

    MailMate reassigns both mailto: and message: to Apple Mail when switching default email client (I think Apple Mail also does that, but maybe something failed for some reason).

    I hope this helps.

    August 21st, 2016 @ 07:35 AM

  3. Robert Black
    Robert Black

    Yes thank you :-)

    August 21st, 2016 @ 07:46 AM

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