Photo sharing by email issue

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How do you share a pic from Photos via email?
I'm stumped.
With iPhoto it would open Mail, offer to resize the image then send as an attachment.
I now use Air Mail 2 and although it appears in the Photos "Share" menu as Air Mail Share it does not do anything but open an empty email window.
 
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I wonder what's happening there. I just tried this with Mail and it works as expected. Right clicking the photo brings up the share options. Selecting mail automatically pasts the picture into a newly created e-mail
 
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This is what I get when I click the share icon.

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Selecting more takes me to a system preferences window which looks like this but still no Mail option. Oddly the Mail item has the Air Mail icon. This may be a part of the problem because Air Mail is my default email client but if I have to change that I'd rather simply not send images by email at all. Frustrating part is i cant seem to get Airmail Share to work either. Help!

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I get a similar menu with Mac Mail as one of the options. If you choose More. . . can you add Air Mail 2? I Choosing that I get some additional options but Air Mail 2 is not one of them. Presumably because I do not have that installed.

Do you have Mac Mail configured. If so, I wonder why it is not in the list. If not, configuring it might allow you to send from it till we figure this out.
 
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I fear that if I set Mail as my default email reader that will fix the issue but I do not want to use Mail as my default email client. The option to share via Air Mail is there as you can see but doesn't work. I have checked the Air Mail help site but no specific answers. I feel like I'm missing something.
 

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Yes. I see what you mean there. I was hoping that there was a way to configure Mail but leave Air Mail 2 as the default program. In theory that would leave you current program for most tasks and Mac Mail for sending photos but I bet that doesn't work.
 
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Good news, Air Mail Composer originally not working at all (did nothing) but since repairing permissions and changing iPhoto preferences to email share from iPhoto (instead of Apple Mail) it now does what Air Mail Support suggests. It opens an email window with the image attached. It does not however offer to resize the image like Mail does. I will need to get someone to check the size of a received image. I can't find any settings in preferences to set the size of jpeg's sent by email as attachments but I tried sending one to my wife and it sent quite quickly. Either way this is a lot better than nothing and I don't often send images by email, just a few older relatives using pc's, no photo sharing, no Face Book etc.
I found this info from Apple Support Forums and Air Mail Support (eventually) but it is apparent from this forum https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6991806?tstart=0 that a lot of people have this problem where their default email client is not Apple Mail e.g. Outlook.
Perhaps this will be addressed in future updates of Photo?
Either way thanks for your help.
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Afraid I wasn't much help there. Good detective work on your part. Looks like Photos still has a few kinks to work out.
 
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Well it's early days, bound to be a few. Thanks for your input:)
 

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