How to detect the default mail application using Apple Script?

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I am using apple scripts to open Mail app & Outlook App with an attachment and prefilled To, Subject & Body.

But to do the same, i need to know which is the default mail application that is being used by the user.

Is there a way to detect this using Apple Script or Java?

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Answer 1

In Objective-C you can do this by calling

-[NSWorkspace URLForApplicationToOpenURL:]

to get the default application for a dummy

mailto

URL. Not sure how you’d do that from AppleScript but it seems like you should be able to get to this via ASOC.

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