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Send To Mail Recipient not working

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dingduck
dingduck

I'm trying to send some photos by right clicking and choosing Send To --> Mail Recipient. A window pops up asking me to resize the photo and then nothing happens after that. When I check the event viewer, i get this error "Unable to start a DCOM Server: {29F458BE-8866-11D5-A3DD-00B0D0F3BAA7}. The error: "740" Happened while starting this command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" /MAPIStartup -Embedding"

I'm using Windows 10 with Thunderbird 45.4.0

Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I'm trying to send some photos by right clicking and choosing Send To --> Mail Recipient. A window pops up asking me to resize the photo and then nothing happens after that. When I check the event viewer, i get this error "Unable to start a DCOM Server: {29F458BE-8866-11D5-A3DD-00B0D0F3BAA7}. The error: "740" Happened while starting this command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" /MAPIStartup -Embedding" I'm using Windows 10 with Thunderbird 45.4.0 Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Thanks for your reply Corey. I think I found what the problem is. It's actually the option of "Check for missing attachment" that was stopping the email from working. Unchecked it and it's all good now

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Corey 'linuxmodder' Sheldon
Corey 'linuxmodder' Sheldon

If resizing the photo likely to smaller than 25Mb as is the defacto size limit for most email programs, including tbird -- consider uploading somewhere like dropbox | google drive and just sharing the link in the email.

dingduck
dingduck Question owner

Chosen Solution

Thanks for your reply Corey. I think I found what the problem is. It's actually the option of "Check for missing attachment" that was stopping the email from working. Unchecked it and it's all good now