Share: where Mail is not default email client

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Share: where Mail is not default email client

Hi All

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Moutain Lion is a great and some challenging update

I have serious problems with Apples Mail App and it drafts keep popping up. See this link.

So I use a different email client. Sparrow Mail App or Postbox.

Problem

Now, when I want to Share my work through Pages, Numbers or Keynote and my default mail client isn't Mail App I just get a fail sound and nothing happens.

If Mail App is selected as default mail client share works.

This issue has risen since Mountain Lion update has been installed.

Solution

Does anyone know how to get around this issue? How one can make iWork apps accept other mail clients to send of work.

Right now is old style save on Desktop and drag into mail client for me. - It's not death, just very annoying.

If anyone has some supreme solution, please let me know.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 31, 2012 11:29 PM

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Answer 1

Peggy

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Jul 31, 2012 11:43 PM in response to jakob.joergensen

It does seem counterintuitive, but you need to open Mail to change the default application for your e-mail. Once you hav launched Mail go to Preferences & click the General button. The top item is "default email reader." Change that to the app you want. You may need to click another button & OK the changes or restart Mail.

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Answer 2

Aug 1, 2012 12:51 PM in response to Peggy

Hi Peggy, thanks for replying. It is much appreciated.

Unfortunatly it's not the issue - to Make Mail the default mail application.

The issue is how to make Pages, Numbers and Keynote - accept another mail application than Mail when sharing. When I try to share now with Postbox or Sparrow any iWork application only gives an error sound and nothing happens.

Thanks for trying to help out, though.

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Answer 3

Peggy

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Aug 1, 2012 2:19 PM in response to jakob.joergensen

If you haven't set another application to be your default e-mail application how are the iWork apps supposed to know? You have to make the change from within Apple Mail to Outlook or Sparrow or whatever app you want as default.

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Answer 4

Aug 2, 2012 1:46 AM in response to Peggy

Hi Peggy. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I might repeat my self: The problem is not selecting the default email client. You can do that in Mail, Sparrow, Postbox and Outlook too.

Setting anything else than Mail as default mail client is not the issue. Done! Easy!

What's the issue is to get iWork applications to accept it! After ML update my iWork apps only want to Share if Mail is standard mail client. Not if any other mail client is selected as standard.

Hope it clarifies 🙂

And once again, thanks for helping out.

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Answer 5

obzrv

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Oct 10, 2012 2:42 PM in response to jakob.joergensen

I have this same issue as well Jakob.

Were you ever able to get the share button to work with an email application other than Mountain Lion mail?

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Answer 6

Oct 11, 2012 2:01 AM in response to obzrv

Hi Obzrv

Nop, but have complied and working with Mail now instead.

Mail is a good app, but has some issues with IMAP. Drafts keeps popping up even though they are send.

Annoying when you work within communication and you're not sure if you'll send your clients and partners the same mail 1, 2 or even 3 times.

I've made the selections in Mails settings to not save drafts on server, cause Mail obviously can not handle it.

Sorry.

All the best.

Jakob

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Answer 7

fruhulda

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Oct 11, 2012 3:35 AM in response to jakob.joergensen

Jakob, have you done any maintenance lately on your computer? It could be cache files or other that isn't ok. Onyx is a free and very good maintenance application.

Repairing permissions seems to help in some cases after installing Mountain Lion

Restarting in Safe mode and then again in normal mode can help.

Deleting the iWork applications plist files could be tried.

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Answer 8

wojuman

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Jan 27, 2013 3:34 AM in response to jakob.joergensen

Hi Jakob,

I use Mountain Lion and all software is updated. Recently I started to use Sparrow as my default email client. My iWork documents cannot be shared directly from Pages or Numbers via share function. Even though I changed default client to Sparrow it does not work in iWork (screen attached). It does work in Safar though.

Have you already found a solution?

Best,

Wojtek

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Answer 9

Jeff Shenk

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Jan 27, 2013 4:33 AM in response to wojuman

If you look at your screenshot, you will see that there is no menu option to "Send by Default Email Client" The only menu option is to Send via Mail. I don't imagine Apple wanted to provide support for problems with every possible email program, so they only provided a means to share with the one where they control the code.

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Answer 10

Jan 27, 2013 6:39 AM in response to wojuman

Wojtek,

In your screen shot (taken in a Numbers window in this case) you would select Numbers, not the greyed-out line above.

Jerry

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Answer 11

wojuman

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Jan 27, 2013 11:41 AM in response to Jeff Shenk

Thanks. It works with Safari though. Same company differnt approach?

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Answer 12

wojuman

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Jan 27, 2013 11:43 AM in response to Jerrold Green1

Thanks Jerry but no - it doesn't work. I wasn't even trying to press the greyed-out line

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Answer 13

Jeff Shenk

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Jan 27, 2013 1:11 PM in response to wojuman

Possibly, but since Safari doesn't create documents and on Safari 5.1.7 on Mac OSX 10.6.8, which I am using, Safari doesn't even have a Share menu, I have no idea what "works with Safari though."

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