how to set up Thunderbird as default email client in Word?

[deanland]

Changed default email program on machine and in windows to Thunderbird. But
when any of the Office2007 Suite program open, the e-mail button only offers
a fax option, The e-mail option is unhighlighted, often called "grayed out."


I am not a newbie -- I know how to set defaults. But Office 2007 seems to
not recognize or acknowledge Thunderbird as the email client. I had no such
problem with XP, or Office 2003.

Thanks in advance.

--dean

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I would try a newsgroup that helps Thunderbird users.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

If you are not a newbie, then please enlighten all us newbies as
to how you set Thunderbird as the default.

If you are not a newbie, then you know to close Thunderbird and
all Office applications, and then make sure the Mail section of
your win.ini file contains all of the following keys/values:

[Mail]
MAPI=1
CMC=1
CMCDLLNAME=mapi.dll
CMCDLLNAME32=mapi32.dll
MAPIX=1
MAPIXVER=1.0.0.1
OLEMessaging=1

If you are not a newbie, then you know that if you need to modify
win.ini, you should use a plain text editor (such as Notepad) to
make the modifications, and you should restart Windows to make
sure the new win.ini settings take effect.

If you are not a newbie, then you know that Thunderbird and Lotus
Notes are not completely MAPI-compliant, but instead use
SimpleMAPI, which arbitrarily works on some computers but not on
others as far as allowing the 'Send To' feature in Office
applications to function.

 

[cho10]

Hello to all,
I have no idea why the exchange above became so heated.
I am not a newbie but I never cease to marvel at how frustrating dealing with systems (no matter who makes them) has become.
Every solution lately seems to have been thought through to a degree but the will to go the "extra 100 yards or the extra mile" seems to have been lost by the wayside.
Anyway thanks for the following :

[Mail]
MAPI=1
CMC=1
CMCDLLNAME=mapi.dll
CMCDLLNAME32=mapi32.dll
MAPIX=1
MAPIXVER=1.0.0.1
OLEMessaging=1

Editing win.ini solved my issue (reinstating Thunderbird as my mail client for all Office applications) which was caused by installing Windows 2007 for a trial and then removing it.
I actually had included that in a note some time back but finding technical stuff in forums is usually an awful lot easier.

Claude