Terry wrote:
As I understand it, if you set Outlook as the system-default email
client, it is invoked by the "Send as email" command but, if
Thunderbird is the system-default email client, OpenOffice cannot
find it.
True.
So, three components are involved in the problem:
1. Internet Explorer because it sets the system-default email
client;
IE is not involved; Windows *is* involved.
2. Thunderbird, because it is the luckless email client; 3.
OpenOffice, because it can find Outlook Express but not Thunderbird.
The one thing I'm sure of is that everyone involved will blame
everyone else. If you have the energy and time to pursue this, I
suspect you will have to follow all angles.
I have had some luck getting solutions on the Mozilla forum:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php
If the cause of the problem is Internet Explorer, you may be waiting
a long time for an answer. But you never know your luck. There is a
Google search tool for M$: http://www.google.com/microsoft
I believe this is a M$ issue. I have problems of that kind with my
file associations manager, which definitely seems to favour its own
applications. It is extremely frustrating. :-X
It probably has to do with MS's implementation of MAPI.
I have a Linux OS, so I can use the setting in Tools >Options
>Internet which evidently does not exist in Windows and Mac versions.
Windows has that, but it does not have Tools > Options > Internet > Email
All the command does is open a compose window for Thunderbird with
the document included as an attachment.
Personally, I would prefer to open the compose window in Thunderbird
and take it from there. I see no great advantage in using the
OpenOffice command.
Well, you cannot attach a file to an email unless it is a file. :-)
So you have to save it somewhere first, then open TB, then navigate to
where you saved it so you can attach it. Doing that with a single click
has no appeal for you??
--
Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ
Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of
every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State
churches that use government power to support themselves and force their
views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights.
Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy
unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion.
Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore,
is absolutely essential in a free society...
--Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), speech, 1808
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