Email attachment still uses your system email client (not web)

[anlek]

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

[anlek]

Also tested setting a different email client for my mac ("Spark") and Alfred still used OS X's Mail app to send attachment.

[deanishe]

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.

[anlek]

@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?

[deanishe]

AKAIK, there are plugins for Outlook and MailMate. The latter is my email client of choice. 

[Andrew]

@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]

[hawkmonitor]

Very helpful!  Thanks for saving me a lot of effort.  Will check out MailMate as time permits and see if it works with Alfred.