Determine the default mail application

[#1]

At my company, we allow employees to use Entourage or Mail.app. Ideally, down the road we want to target installs to users of Mail.app or Entourage. A good example is installing Symantec E-Vault Entourage client on Entourage users only.

I know you can set your default mail client through Mail.app, but there must be some plist or some other info I can poll to get what the user is using through Casper.

Anyone have a similar experience?

Thanks.

[talkingmoose]

The default mail application will be set per user, so you'll need to look at
each user's home folder.

I suggest reading the LaunchServices database to determine the default mail
application set for the user. This string (one line):

defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices | grep -B 1 mailto

returns this for me:

LSHandlerRoleAll = "com.microsoft.entourage"; LSHandlerURLScheme = mailto;

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bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492

[tlarkin]

Sounds like a great time and place for a dummy package.