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Hello,
Thunderbird is my default email application. However, I cannot create a message with an attachment from the context menu of the file explorer (selecting Send to and then Recipient).
Windows 10 / Thunderbird 91.9.1 (64-bit)
Thunderbird is my default email application. However, I cannot create a message with an attachment from the context menu of the file explorer (selecting Send to and then Recipient).
Windows 10 / Thunderbird 91.9.1 (64-bit)
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Here it is, it works!
Very surprising, it’s not enough to indicate that Thunderbird is the default email application in the Windows settings; you also have to declare it in Thunderbird's preferences, under the General tab. In System Integration, check the box "Check....", then press the "Check Now" button, and do what needs to be done...
Very surprising, it’s not enough to indicate that Thunderbird is the default email application in the Windows settings; you also have to declare it in Thunderbird's preferences, under the General tab. In System Integration, check the box "Check....", then press the "Check Now" button, and do what needs to be done...
hello
select one or more files and then click Send to -> Recipient must open Thunderbird with the attached files.
what happens when clicking Recipient?
select one or more files and then click Send to -> Recipient must open Thunderbird with the attached files.
what happens when clicking Recipient?
When I select Send to and then Recipient from the context menu opened on a jpeg file, for example, a first window opens to offer me to reduce the file size of this image, which is potentially very convenient, then it processes a bit, and then a window opens with the message "You need to create a Microsoft Outlook profile. In Microsoft Windows, go to the Control Panel, then open Mail. Please click on Show Profiles, and then Add...". After that, nothing happens, so Thunderbird does not open.
On a previous PC, which I no longer have, it worked perfectly.
On a previous PC, which I no longer have, it worked perfectly.
Maybe Windows takes over the processing of the jpeg file via Photos (then Mail) if the jpeg opening settings command it.
What happens if your jpeg file is already reduced to a reasonable size by whatever you want (XnView, Fast Stone Viewer…) or if you do the same experiment with a txt or doc file?
Check in passing that Thunderbird is indeed the default mail client, and assign the jpeg image extensions to something other than Photos (your browser or whatever you want).
What happens if your jpeg file is already reduced to a reasonable size by whatever you want (XnView, Fast Stone Viewer…) or if you do the same experiment with a txt or doc file?
Check in passing that Thunderbird is indeed the default mail client, and assign the jpeg image extensions to something other than Photos (your browser or whatever you want).
Hello Jchem,
For the "send to / recipient" issue, follow this procedure:
- Start by making hidden files and folders visible, in the Windows File Explorer options / View / Options
- In the File Explorer, navigate and expand this tree:
C:\Users\(Your username)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
- From the desktop, right-click / copy the Thunderbird shortcut
- Paste it into the SendTo folder (right-click / paste)
Result: A right-click on a file / Send to... will offer the choice "Thunderbird" instead of "Recipient", but it's still quite handy.
If you want to fine-tune, rename the "Thunderbird" shortcut in SendTo to "Recipient"
For the image reduction issue, use the "Shrunked Image Resizer" add-on which will offer to reduce the size of attached images when sending an email.
For the "send to / recipient" issue, follow this procedure:
- Start by making hidden files and folders visible, in the Windows File Explorer options / View / Options
- In the File Explorer, navigate and expand this tree:
C:\Users\(Your username)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
- From the desktop, right-click / copy the Thunderbird shortcut
- Paste it into the SendTo folder (right-click / paste)
Result: A right-click on a file / Send to... will offer the choice "Thunderbird" instead of "Recipient", but it's still quite handy.
If you want to fine-tune, rename the "Thunderbird" shortcut in SendTo to "Recipient"
For the image reduction issue, use the "Shrunked Image Resizer" add-on which will offer to reduce the size of attached images when sending an email.
Thank you for this lead, otherwise I had already tinkered in the SendTo folder by assigning Thunderbird as the program to open the file from the properties, while it's a service. That was not a good idea, as the recipient disappeared from the context menu, and to restore everything to its original state, I had to intervene in the registry. Well, I find myself in the state corresponding to what it was at the beginning of this post.
By pasting the executable shortcut of Thunderbird into the SendTo folder, as you suggest, we can indeed launch Thunderbird from the context menu applied to a file, with this same file becoming an attachment of the email, but without the possibility of reducing the size of an image, which is quite a shame.
Since I have several accounts on my PC, I activated Thunderbird on another account with a test email address, and everything works as I wish there, with possible image reduction. I can't see what difference in settings I have between the two accounts...
By pasting the executable shortcut of Thunderbird into the SendTo folder, as you suggest, we can indeed launch Thunderbird from the context menu applied to a file, with this same file becoming an attachment of the email, but without the possibility of reducing the size of an image, which is quite a shame.
Since I have several accounts on my PC, I activated Thunderbird on another account with a test email address, and everything works as I wish there, with possible image reduction. I can't see what difference in settings I have between the two accounts...
but without the option to reduce the weight of an image
I already addressed this point at the end of my previous message.
I already addressed this point at the end of my previous message.
Thanks for the tip, but as far as I'm concerned, there's still a hitch:
I use portable Thunderbird on a USB stick and I also have a "normal" Thunderbird installed on my system for testing.
I just tried the procedure you described in portable Thunderbird, and the result is that the "normal" Thunderbird has become the default program.
I use portable Thunderbird on a USB stick and I also have a "normal" Thunderbird installed on my system for testing.
I just tried the procedure you described in portable Thunderbird, and the result is that the "normal" Thunderbird has become the default program.
You can try to create another Windows account, that way you'll have each version in a different account...
Good idea, but since I only use the regular TB for testing, I have "Recipient" AND "Portable Thunderbird" in the context menu of "send to..." and I choose one or the other depending on the use. It's less cumbersome than changing Windows accounts.
Hello
To send to portable Thunderbird, see this tutorial:
https://communaute.orange.fr/t5/Trucs-et-astuces/Thunderbird-Activer-la-fonction-Windows-quot-Envoyer-vers/ta-p/2768533
To send to portable Thunderbird, see this tutorial:
https://communaute.orange.fr/t5/Trucs-et-astuces/Thunderbird-Activer-la-fonction-Windows-quot-Envoyer-vers/ta-p/2768533
Hello,
I use a different email client than Thunderbird and never use "Send to": when I write a message in which I believe some enhancements are not possible in the body of the message, I simply provide information directing towards the possible attachments, with the body of the message itself as an attachment.
Subject to all reservations, I don't think this is possible: "Send to" can only handle the single targeted object, not multiple at once.
Perhaps we can circumvent the difficulty by approaching it the other way: we "send to" the attachment, which then opens a message whose body may contain the default template chosen for creating a new email, leaving only the task of modifying that body.
I use a different email client than Thunderbird and never use "Send to": when I write a message in which I believe some enhancements are not possible in the body of the message, I simply provide information directing towards the possible attachments, with the body of the message itself as an attachment.
Subject to all reservations, I don't think this is possible: "Send to" can only handle the single targeted object, not multiple at once.
Perhaps we can circumvent the difficulty by approaching it the other way: we "send to" the attachment, which then opens a message whose body may contain the default template chosen for creating a new email, leaving only the task of modifying that body.