Problems with defaul email program!

Posted by: prymal, October 4th, 2008, 5:16pm

Hi! I have been having this on going problem with an error message everytime I go to send an email from within another program what it says is I must set up a default email program so I do. I go into explorer, tools & internet options & change my default email program to mozzila thunderbird. Everything works fine for a day or so & then explorer defaults me back to outllook as the default mail program & then the errors start again. Whats with that! Anyone else run into this. Sure would like to know if there is a fix for this. Seems like an attempt by microsoft to hog this operation. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Using win xp pro! TIA!
Paul

Posted by: Snakeyes, October 5th, 2008, 11:50am; Reply: 1

Seems like the change is defaulting back to outlook. Try making it manually in Windows explorer .
In Explorer go to Folder Options/File Types In the Registered file types box scroll to URL:Mail TO protocol. Highlight this and click on the Advanced button and add path to Mozilla

Posted by: prymal, October 5th, 2008, 8:38pm; Reply: 2

Thanks for the quick reply here snakeyes! However there is no such file type in the registered file types! I've scrolled thru all of the URL: files & no such listing in my file types. The only explorer connections with URL files are URL:RLogin Protocol, URL:Telenet Protocol & URL:TN3270 Protocol. Any other ideas here!
Thanks again for the help here!
Paul

Posted by: Snakeyes, October 6th, 2008, 12:52am; Reply: 3

In that case use the "New" button and the create a new file type URL:Mail TO protocol and set path to mozilla.

Posted by: prymal, October 6th, 2008, 2:55am; Reply: 4

When I try to create a new file type as you have said. URL:MailTo & set the path to mozilla thunderbird & still no go. Keep getting the error message: No profiles have been created. To create a new profile, use the mail icon in the control panel.
Looks like this just isn't going to work. Thanks for your help though!
Paul

Posted by: Snakeyes, October 6th, 2008, 10:47am; Reply: 5

Sorry about that. Maybe this URL could shed some light. You have most probably already tried every thing there.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_mail_client

Posted by: prymal, October 7th, 2008, 3:08am; Reply: 6

Thanks for the continued help here. Well appreciated. However I went through every possible scenario with the mozilla web fix & nothing worked. Strange thing.
Paul

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