anlek Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 I was playing around with some of the advanced features of Alfred and noticed that if I type "Email andrew@example.com" and press enter, it loads up my Gmail, and I'm off to the races! However, if I selected a file (in Alfred) and chose email, it opens my OS X email client "Mail" and attaches it there. This bug might be a limitation of what you can do with web clients, but I figured I'd report it just the same. I'm running the latest version (3.3.1) and running OSX 10.11.6 Hope that helps, Andrew Link to comment
anlek Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 Also tested setting a different email client for my mac ("Spark") and Alfred still used OS X's Mail app to send attachment. Link to comment
deanishe Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 It is, as you say, a limitation of webmail. There is a standard method, supported by almost every email program, for addressing an email. To be able to send attachments, however, requires a custom plugin for the particular email program you use. Which in turn requires the program to support that kind of thing in the first place. Link to comment
anlek Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 @deanishe, Thanks for getting back to me! I'm sorry to hear that I hate OSX Mail and would love to avoid it at all costs. Any idea what other mail clients Alfred supports? Link to comment
deanishe Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 AKAIK, there are plugins for Outlook and MailMate. The latter is my email client of choice. Link to comment
Andrew Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 @anlek the default supported email clients are listed in Alfred's Features > Contacts > Email preferences. The email client needs to have AppleScript support for attachment support (the non-attachment email command uses mailto so can support a wider range of default clients using the mailto handler). [moving to help sub-forum] Link to comment
hawkmonitor Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Very helpful! Thanks for saving me a lot of effort. Will check out MailMate as time permits and see if it works with Alfred. Link to comment
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