Clicking on email address opens Mail

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Sarah Feliz

I'm a relatively new user of Mac and Entourage. When I click on an email
address within a message (to write to that person), the Mail program opens.
What I want is for a new window in Entourage to open so that I can write
from within Entourage. How can I change this behaviour? Where's the setting
to do this?

Thanks,
Sarah
 
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Bernard Rey

I'm a relatively new user of Mac and Entourage. When I
click on an email address within a message (to write to
that person), the Mail program opens.
What I want is for a new window in Entourage to open so
that I can write from within Entourage. How can I change
this behaviour? Where's the setting to do this?
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This means your default mail application is Apple's "Mail".
If you are using Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2.x) you can change
the setting in the "Internet" System Preference Pane.

If you are using Panther (Mac OS X 10.3.x) things are a
bit different, the equivalent setting has to be found in
Apple's "Mail" somewhere (I guess in the "preferences")
 
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Sarah Feliz

That's precisely it. I was upgraded to Panther and can't find the equivalent
to the Jaguar "Internet System Preference Pane." The preferences for Mail
relate only to Composing, there's nothing else there. Entourage also has no
such item--changing default mail program--in its preferences. Where is this
located in Jaguar? Does anyone know?
 
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Bernard REY

Sarah Feliz wrote :
That's precisely it. I was upgraded to Panther and can't find the equivalent
to the Jaguar "Internet System Preference Pane." The preferences for Mail
relate only to Composing, there's nothing else there. Entourage also has no
such item--changing default mail program--in its preferences. Where is this
located in Jaguar? Does anyone know?
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I'm sure ther must be something in the prefs (I don't have Panther). But
here's a better answer : IC-switch. A free app to help you out:

http://flip.macrobyte.net/software/ic-switch_en
 
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Alan Schaevitz

Open the Mail app. Go to Mail > Preferences and click on the General tab
(it probably opens right to that tab). Then set Entourage as the Default
Email Reader. That will do the same thing as the Internet system pref did
in Jaguar.
 
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