On 20 Oct 2011, at 13:55, Thomas Eckhold wrote: >> This turned out to be a non-trivial question. The short answer is: >> No, iCal is hardcoded to use Mail.app and does not look for the >> default email client (which essentially just binds mailto: links to >> an application). > > Does that mean it could work with other calendar apps like BusyCal > (that is what I am using)? However, BusyCal calls Mail.app by default > and I believe it doesn't check which email client is set as default > client (even the manual states it does). BusyCal creates its own ics > file. Maybe I could ask them to support other email clients like MM.
Well, it depends on how much BusyCal does. The solution/hack for iCal uses a mailto: link to create the message in MailMate. This supports setting headers such as To and Subject, and it also allows a body text, but attachments are not supported by this URL scheme hence the current limitation. I could allow a custom header name for that like ?x-attach?, but I need to think about any drawbacks of such a solution first. The integration between BusyCal and Apple Mail may go beyond this (I haven?t checked). -- Benny
