[Alpine-info] Setting Mac's default email handler to alpine

[Aidan Wilson]

Far out, I didn't think this simple question would generate such debate.

I've since had a look at my system at home, an Ubuntu machine, and I 
discovered that it's not quite as well supported as some in this thread 
seem to believe.

My system 'preferred application' for email is in fact not 'alpine', but 
~/bin/send-alpine, a small bash script I'd written to handle mailto: urls. 
Here it is:


> #!/bin/sh

> alpine `echo $1 | sed "s/mailto://"`


I actually haven't tried putting this script on my mac system at work (not 
at work now or until monday, so I can't test this), but hopefully doing so 
will work, although there's the checkbox to run this in a terminal, which 
is lacking on a mac. Would someone with a mac like to test this?

-Aidan