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I was presented with an interesting issue this weekend when trying to export a few photos from the new Photos app on OS X Yosemite. OS X has a nifty sharing menu which is similar to the share sheet in iOS. When trying to export one or multiple images from the new Photos app you're presented with various options, one which should be your mail app. After taking a look at my friends computer I realized he does not have an option to use Mail as a sharing source for his photos but is presented other options such as Twitter, Facebook, iCloud Photo Sharing and Messages. Mail is not even a selectable option in System Preferences, but Outlook is.
It turns out my friend uses Outlook as his default mail client. Interesting thing is while Outlook is a selectable mail client in the sharing menu options, when trying to utilize Outlook it does not appear as a choice during the sharing process. Very odd. Even more there is no choice whatsoever to use Apple Mail in either the preferences nor the share sheet itself. Bug, glitch, OS X not liking Outlook? I was puzzled.
After some tinkering I found the solution. Turns out that in OS X Yosemite one must use the Apple Mail app as the default mail program in order to share photos. You can leave Outlook installed but must have Mail set as the default. This Apple support document will assist you in changing your default client.
I'm assuming this will be fixed in Office 2016 for Mac but I have not updated my suite yet to verify. The odd thing is that you get the choice to use Outlook or at least set it up in your preferences but are never presented the option to use it in action. This may be just a case of software from a different vendor not keeping up with operating system updates.
Hopefully this is fixed in El Capitan or in a future update for Outlook. If someone is running the El Capitan beta and confirm this please let me know in the comments.