Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

How to configure MAPI

  • No replies
  • 5 have this problem
  • 527 views
Paul.Maker
Paul.Maker
more options

I wish to send email from MS Word using Thunderbird. Does Thunderbird support MAPI? Does Windows 7 actually employ MAPI? How do I set up both?

I wish to send email from MS Word using Thunderbird. Does Thunderbird support MAPI? Does Windows 7 actually employ MAPI? How do I set up both?

Chosen solution

TB supports simple MAPI, and in a perfect world it would be sufficient to set TB as the default email program to have it accept commands from Word. See this discussion for more info: http://gsfn.us/t/2yv0n

Info on fixmapi.exe: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980681

Read this answer in context 👍 2