change the default email app? NOT!

ok. i followed the instructions on how to change your macintosh default email app. no problem. launch the built-in mail program, go to preferences/general and change the default email program in the drop down. all good.

except it doesn't really work. fine, it works for mailto links in my web browser. but how often do you use those? i'm a big user of the "mail document" command under the file menu. i use it in windows extensively when i send spreadsheets or documents or pdfs straight from word or excel or my pdf reader, or even straight from windows explorer by right-clicking and choosing "send to email recipient."

but on the macbook, the mail document command in the preview pdf viewer application, from which i've tried to send various documents only to have them appear in the macintosh "Mail.app" and NOT in thunderbird.

this really sucks! i remember when microsoft made it hard to change default applications it was annoying. now its really easy in windows to change your browser and change your default mail program. when i click a link or send a file from an application or the windows explorer it pops up right in thunderbird or firefox perfectly ready and no problem.

so far i have not been able to figure out what is up with the macintosh on this issue. it seems so straightforward, but "JUST DOESN'T WORK." i don't see any webpages talking about this problem or any workarounds.

i'm going to try changing it back to mail, saving and quitting everything, then changing it back to thunderbird.

mailto links work fine. just the "send document" from preview inexplicably launches 'mail' instead of my selected default email app, 'thunderbird.'

i'm just so surprised at all of these little annoying things that just don't work the way they're expected.

if anyone knows what's wrong please share it with me! i'd like to get this fixed.