499988 - Windows XP does not recognize Tbird as default email client

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 499958

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Jerry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.22

Cannot open an email message from another program.  Message comes up "Microsoft Office Outlook": Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the messaging request."   MS Outlook has NEVER been my default email client.  I was able to create emails from other programs under 2.0.0.21.  In the new update to 2.0.0.22 this no longer works.  I reinstalled 2.0.0.21.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go into any program that allows you to send an email 
2. try to send an email
3. message appears.

Comment 2

[Gary Van Cott]

This bug is a disaster for me. I use this function all the time. How do you go back to 2.0.0.21?

Comment 4

[Peter]

This was a disaster for me, took me a few minutes to realize that is was .22.

You can go back to .21 here: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.21/win32/en-US/ 

Be sure to disable the auto-updating otherwise you will be back at .22 in no time.

Comment 5

[Gary Van Cott]

Switching the default email program in the control panel to something else and then starting Thunderbird again fixed it for me.

Comment 6

[Peter]

I tried that, I toggled it in the control panel "internet options" to Outlook and back to Thunderbird, didn't clear it for me.  I completely uninstalled outlook, still didn't work, uninstalled .22 and reinstalled .22 clean, still didn't clear it....rolled back to .21 and all was perfectly fine again.