How to solve the worst email annoyances
You’d think that after 25 years of mainstream experience, the job of sending and receiving email would be dead simple. Yet we continue to face situations that cause many of us to rend our garments and tear our hair. And because we do, I return to address this year’s crop of email annoyances.
Change your default email client
Annoyance: You’ve given Mail a try, but it just doesn’t float your boat. Though you’d prefer to use a different email client, Mail invariably launches when any email-related chore crops up.
Cure: You can find the means to choose a different email client within Mail’s preferences. Just launch Mail, choose Mail > Preferences, and in the General tab click the Default Email Reader pop-up menu. In the list that appears, locate the email client that you wish to use (or choose Select and navigate to that client if it doesn’t appear in the list). The next time an operation invokes email, the client you’ve chosen should carry it out.
Ironically, if you don't want to use Mail, you must open Mail and alter its preferences to inform it that you prefer another app to be your default email client.
Speaking of default clients, when you select images in the latest version of iPhoto and click Share > Email, iPhoto generates a message that incorporates your images as part of a stationery template. If you would prefer that iPhoto instead send your images as attachments via an email client of your choosing, select iPhoto > Preferences and in the General tab choose the client you wish to use from the Email Photos Using pop-up menu.
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