Sending emails with OO and Thunderbird

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Tanksniffer
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Sending emails with OO and Thunderbird

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 Edit: Split from earlier topic because this person needs their own topic since the situation is different, caused by drive replacement, whereas the other person experienced the problem on a new system and a drive replacement was not involved. 
Hi, I have the same problem, I have uninstalled and reinstalled both Thunderbird and OO but when I try to send document as email I get the message that OO cannot find a working email program. Thunderbird is my default email program in Windows 10.
This used to work fine until I recently had to reinstall after SSD change.
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Re: Sending emails with OO and Thunderbird

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I get the message that OO cannot find a working email program.
Then the Tunderbird is NOT (yet) the default email client on your PC .

You can try it with a portable version of the LibreOffice too.
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Re: Sending emails with OO and Thunderbird

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Win10 sometimes resets default apps to something safe (and in their world this is always something produced/sold by Microsoft...)
So check your default apps.

There are 2 areas, one for filetypes (if Win attempts to open your OpenOffice-Files with Office365) and one for protocol/service. In the latter area you usually hve to select Thunderbird instead of "mail".

If this don't work - I usually call Thunderbird directly by Macro via shell(), because I needed to append attachments directly.

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Re: Sending emails with OO and Thunderbird

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Ok Thanks but Thunderbird is definitely registered as my default mail app in Windows,
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Tanksniffer wrote:
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Ok Thanks but Thunderbird is definitely registered as my default mail app in Windows,
Yes, the windows system panel makes you think it is. Thunderbird behaves like a true default mail app in Windows after I imported this into the registry of our Windoze boxes:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]
@="Mozilla Thunderbird"
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