Windows 7: Windows Mail

Well grits instead of waiting for your answers and using the time I have at this moment, I quickly installed Eudora 7.1.0.9 and I guess it was in sponsor mode. I quickly setup an account via it's first run prompts -okay it's running...

...however back to WinMail, when I right click on a file and click "Send To> Mail Recipient - WinMail starts right up opening a new email with that file attached - which is what I assumed you wanted to do right? ..and so my WinMail still works fine even with Eudora installed.

..and so this is where if you would answer these other questions would be helpful for me to try and re-create what you have done in the past that made it so that your Send To> Mail Recipient is not working? ..actually please explain to me how and in which way it does not work - what happens when you right click any file and click the Send To> Mail Recipient?

When you installed Eudora and opened it for the first time, and it prompted did you create a brand new email account or import settings from an existing email account.... I'm just trying to get an idea of which way you installed it is all.

Importantly, have you ever installed/uninstalled 'any' other email client on your setup?

endeavor, sorry about delay, summer yard work & either packing for a road trip or getting company.

Yes, my Eudora is the same one that you installed. 'IF' I remember right, it was created as a new acct, but then again my rememberer is broke so possibly I used settings from Thunderbird which I was using at that time. I had earlier, but uninstalled DreamMail.
Yes, my WM is set as default & grayed out.
Am in the process of sorting emails out of Eudora so I can uninstall it.
When I right click & Send To>Mail Recipient, Eudora opens, same as when I click File at top of screen, scroll down to Send>Page by or Link by email.

Hope I answered all for you, have had 2 interruptions while trying to type this.
Thanks for trying to help me,
grits

Hi grits,

It looks like the answer may be pretty simple for you grits, after testing and applying these settings I can switch back and forth making either Windows Mail or Eudora set as default for 'SendTo' as well as 'Mail To' and the '.eml' extension, and either client while set as default works with these functions.

I know you like things explained in detail simplicity for you so I'll do my best. This is what you do, go to your Start button (you know the round 'ms icon ball' at the very left hand bottom of you desktop screen, and click it...)

actually just follow this sequence:

click Start> click All Programs> click ''Default Programs'' to open it (or it's also found in the Control Panel, etc)

..when that opens up then click the listing 'Set your Default Programs'

...when that opens, highlight 'Windows Mail' from the list

...then click the bottom listing: 'Choose defaults for this program'

...when that screen opens put check-marks in all three boxes: Mail To + Send Mail + .eml as shown in screenshot

...then Be Sure to click the Save button

That should fix it for you and set WinMail back to being default for everything to do with your mail program.

If you ever want Eudora to be your default, then do the same procedure but of course highlight Eudora in the list instead of WinMail. If you ever uninstall Eudora make sure you have WinMail set up as the default for those three items before you do it.

To be of help, here's an edited screenshot to show what to do, starting with
the 'Set your default program' sequence: (click it once, twice, to open it up full)

Ran into a snag right off the bat. Will include screenshot. My list doesn't include WM.

Hmmm, I wonder if when you uninstalled DreamMail that its uninstaller also removed WM from the list; the WM register program entries are included in the WinMail.reg which you first ran to get WM going, and so something probably from the other email uninstalls you did, removed WM along with it.

I made a quick little reg file for you to merge to see if we can get it back the easiest way, of which I also added an important line that's in the latest WimMail.reg but not in the first ones he made, and I can't remember which revision you started with and so this will make sure.

The attached registry file contents when merged will register WM letting it show up in the 'Default Programs' list if it's missing (and also associate WM Extensions, Protocols, and MAPI functions), and as well if your 'Make Default' button is unreactive and greyed out because of interference from other email client install/uninstalls, this will reactivate/bold it so that you can click it to once again to make default. (fyi, when First activating WM this is all done automatically, however for those who install/uninstall other clients after WM, sometimes these problems may occur, and so this abbreviated registry fix will restore the WM defaults without having to re-run the entire WM install process.)

Download the attached reg file below to your computer and then right click on it and click Merge (or double click). Upon a 'successful' merge, please reboot before continuing

~After you merge and reboot, please open WinMail and go to Tools> Options> General ..and if the Make Default buttons are bolded (not greyed out) ..if they are bolded then click them to 'Make Default'

~Also follow my previous message and screenshot instructions to see if Windows Mail is listed in your Default Programs again, if it is, then go ahead and do those instructions. ..good luck!

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(Note! The few registry entires in this attachment are already included in the Page 1 tutorial download)

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endeavor, I was long past DreamMail before I went with WM so doubt that it's the problem. Should I go ahead with your instructions anyway? Sorry to be such a pest.

Thanks,
grits

Absolutely continue! ...that part it not important of what/who caused it, I had thought you tried a few different email clients and uninstalled them is all, something removed it though, and you were doing a lot of testings and fix its especially in your other threads, but irregardless of what did it lets move on, the resolve is the same and so yes please Continue on to fix it.

You don't have it done already

, that did it, "Thank you, thank you"!

That's great grits and what we like to hear that it's fixed, and you're welcome!

...have a nice weekend.

Endeavor,

As you said...I was not aware of any updates since the known installing of SP1 breaks it but for that you simply need to just put the original msoe32/64.dll back is all, but other than that there was nothing else I was aware of.


Rumor has it that we are already overdue for SP-2.

As I remember with SP-1, WM still worked but SP-1 failed to load.

How confident are you that we will find some sort of fix if SP-2 won't load.

Don