Mail won't relinquish default mailer status

Eudora has been my default mailer for many years. Yet after the last Safari update a few days ago, the browser suddenly ignores Eudora's default status although it is clearly checked in Eudora's preferences. Instead, Safari thinks Mail is my default mailer. So I dutifully open Mail (I never use it on this machine) and check its preferences, which mysteriously assign it as default mailer. I change that setting to Eudora. The next time I click an email link in Safari, Mail pops up again as the default mailer. If I check both email client preferences at that point, both are set to be my default mailer even though I changed Mail to NOT be so. I have tried rebuilding Safari's .plist file and emptying Safari's cache, but it still recognizes Mail as the default mailer. I have also tried a Mail .plist reset, but that did not change the behavior.
How can I stop Mail from making itself the default mailer?

I too have a similar problem. It seems that everybody who upgraded from an Exchange IMAP account has no problem setting the priority of their emails. Anyone who created a brand new Exchange account in Apple Mail from scratch, however, is in capable of setting the priority of their emails. I post this because I'm an administrator of the Macs at my school's library, and this is a very irksome problem for some. Please fix soon.

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