Clicking an e-mail link in Safari doesn't open default mail client

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--and check its preferences, which mysteriously assign it as default mailer. I change that setting to Eudora. And the next time I try to 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 still set to be my default mailer even though I changed Mail to NOT be so.
How do I make Safari/Mail stop overriding my setting of Eudora as default mailer?
--Karen

HI,
Try troubleshooting the Safari .plist file.
Open a Finder window. Select your Home Folder in the Sidebar on the left. It has a small house icon. Then open the Library folder then the Preferences folder.
Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop. Now launch Safari. If you can set the default Mail app, move the .plist file to the Trash.
Also, from the Safari menu bar click Safari / Empty Cache.
Carolyn

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