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send to mail recipient not working in windows 11

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cathal57
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By right clicking an image, there is a menu which has more options, and in more options there is "send to". By clicking "mail recipient", a dialog opens up to select the file size preferred. Then click attach. At this point, in windows 10, the email is ready with attachment in Thunderbird. Now, new PC with windows 11, when I click attach, the dialog disappears, but no email appears in Thunderbird. I have checked settings, and Thunderbird is chosen for .eml and for MAILTO Does anyone know how to make this work in windows 11?

By right clicking an image, there is a menu which has more options, and in more options there is "send to". By clicking "mail recipient", a dialog opens up to select the file size preferred. Then click attach. At this point, in windows 10, the email is ready with attachment in Thunderbird. Now, new PC with windows 11, when I click attach, the dialog disappears, but no email appears in Thunderbird. I have checked settings, and Thunderbird is chosen for .eml and for MAILTO Does anyone know how to make this work in windows 11?

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Lin
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I don't know the answer, but it DOES work for me on my Windows 11 box, but DOES NOT work on my Windows 10 box.

This makes me think there is some tweak that can make it work on both.

Lin
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I fixed my problem by going to Thunderbird menu item Tools | Settings | General | System Integration and make sure the "Always check to see if Thunderbird is the default mail client on startup" is checked, and click the "Check Now" button. You might need to log out and back on, though I didn't need to.

Thunderbird has been acting like the default email program in all aspects that I noticed, but the option was unchecked. Maybe a Windows update did that?

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