How can I start a new email in Thunderbird from outside the program?
I recently tried out Mailbird and they have a cool feature of being able to press CTRL+ALT+Space Bar at any time to compose a new email. By "at any time", I mean I can be anywhere in Windows 10 (i.e., on the desktop, in another program, etc...) and press that key combination and Mailbird's New Message window pops up and is ready to go. It's super convenient. How can I achieve this with Thunderbird?
Modified by john76
Chosen solution
This is for Windows 10. Set Thunderbird as the default email client.
Then:
- Go to a folder where you’d like the shortcut stored (like Documents)
- Right click in the folder and choose New > Shortcut
- For the location, enter: “mailto:”
- Hit “Next”
- Give the shortcut a name (i.e., Compose Email)
- Click “Finish”
- Now, right click on the shortcut you just created and choose “Properties”
- In the Shortcut Key field, type the letter “Z”. You can choose almost any key you want. You’ll see that Windows automatically uses CTRL and ALT as part of the key combination.
- Press “OK”
You’re all set! Now you have a system wide keyboard shortcut to compose new emails. Awesome.
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Chosen Solution
This is for Windows 10. Set Thunderbird as the default email client.
Then:
- Go to a folder where you’d like the shortcut stored (like Documents)
- Right click in the folder and choose New > Shortcut
- For the location, enter: “mailto:”
- Hit “Next”
- Give the shortcut a name (i.e., Compose Email)
- Click “Finish”
- Now, right click on the shortcut you just created and choose “Properties”
- In the Shortcut Key field, type the letter “Z”. You can choose almost any key you want. You’ll see that Windows automatically uses CTRL and ALT as part of the key combination.
- Press “OK”
You’re all set! Now you have a system wide keyboard shortcut to compose new emails. Awesome.
Modified by john76