MS Word2003 - "Send to" Thunderbird option greyed out

[Luke]

I have WindowsXp and office2003, but I run Thunderbird as my mail client.

I have never been able to use the "Send to" feature of word to send a file
to an email recipient and this is rather annoying. I recently did a full and
complete reinstall and still have the same problem.

Looking at Mozilla help forums, I have encountered some suggestions,
including ensuring that Thunderbird is the default mail client. It was, and
is, but this hasn't helped.

However I believe the problem to be an MSWord issue, because I am able to
right-click "Send to" any file in Windows explorer.

Can anyone make any suggestions, I would dearly love to send to from within
Word.

Thanks in advance

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Word is looking for a MAPI server (Messaging Application Programming
Interface).

ThunderBird doesn't have one.

Thunderbird is a nice IMAP client, but it doesn't have all the features of a
real Office email program :-)

Cheers

On 14/2/07 1:15 AM, in article
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<Lu...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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[Luke]

Thanks for your response John,

Your answer is clear, although it doesn't answer the question of why Windows
explorer can "send to" Mail recipient... I accepted that this was just the
way things were.

However tonight I was using the Track Changes and Reviewing features of Word
(still 2003) When I click on "Reply with Changes" button in the Reviewing
toolbar it is able to send the file as an attachment without any
difficulties!!!

Can someone please explain?

Luke