Windows 7: Cannot Send Web Pages or Links by e-mail

Mozilla Thunderbird is my e-mail default and accessible via the Command Bar icon in Internet Explorer 8. However, the options under the File tab on the IE8 Menu Bar to send a page or link by e-mail are greyed out and I cannot find any settings to activate them.

This may be because the functions only work with a Microsoft e-mail program, but I would be grateful if anyone can confirm this or, better still, advise how to activate it.

Hello pottyperson,

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Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Default Programs. Click on TB and make sure it is set as default.

Hope this helps.

Gary

Thanks Gary. I had already done that, but have checked again and confirmed that Thunderbird has all its defaults.

I did some further tinkering and found a solution myself, very close to that suggested by garysgold. For anyone interested, here it is.

Control Panel/Default Programs/Set program access and computer defaults. "Custom" had the dot. I expanded this option and dotted "Mozilla Thunderbird" (leaving the dot at "Use my current e-mail program" will not do). Then clicked "OK" and all was well.

(Bizarrely, when I return to this, the last-mentioned dot has returned to "Use my current e-mail program" but the function remains available.)

Glad you got it sorted. Thanks for posting your solution.

Thunderbird isn't in the list, nor is .eml listed under file associations.

You might try FileTypesMan v1.56

But you;ll need to know the MIME type, which I cam't recall, maybe maikto:

This fix works great thank for you help is been bugging me for ages