Email and FreeCommander
Posted: 26.11.2022, 11:42
Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, release 22H2, FreeCommander 64-bit, release 878
First, this isn't a problem or serious bug, but a question to which there may be an answer that I haven't found; perhaps a setting in FreeCommander.
From time to time, I need to send files I'm working on, using my email client Thunderbird. These are mainly PDFs, but can be other files such as documents (Word, Libre), spreadsheets (Excel, Libre).
When using FreeCommander, I navigate to the file, double-click it, and it will open in its default application (Foxit Reader, Word etc.). I can then work on it, save it, and with the file still open in the application, select the file sharing dropdown from the application menu (for example, in Foxit,"Share>Email>Email Current Tab" and similar in MS Office applications). This should result in my already-running Thunderbird client opening a new mail composition window for me to input recipient etc., and with the file as an attachment. However, when I go through this routine,and after a brief interval, I get an error message ("Word couldn't send mail because of MAPI failure:Unspecified error", or an internal Foxit 000002 error), and my Thunderbird taskbar icon briefly flashes and changes colour, whilst the error message(s) I describe appear in the Word, Foxit etc. window.
This is the series of events when I am using FreeCommander, and I almost never use Windows File Explorer, and then only when it is set as the default for an application such as OneDrive and appears automatically.
However, if I go through the exact same sequence of file opening, app running and file sharing via email as I describe in Para. 3 above, using File Explorer, the sharing operation works perfectly. A new email composition window opens in Thunderbird, with my shared file as an attachment, and I can then email it to the recipient.
I don't think this is a Thunderbird problem, and I have been through all obvious settings in the applications to see if there is anything that may affect them, but this is unlikely if they will work with File Explorer but error with FreeCommander. Perhaps there is a setting in FreeCommander that I've missed or set wrongly, or something in the Registry that may need altering or adding.
I have meantime added Thunderbird as a "Sent to" in the right-click file context menu that appears in FreeCommander, and this works perfectly, to email the selected file(s) as attachments, so I'm not unable to email out of FreeCommander. It would however be useful to be able to share files as I have described from FreeCommander and the application options, and I am curious as to why these work as required in the File Explorer scenario but not in FreeCommander; with the latter being my main and sole "navigator" on the machine.
First, this isn't a problem or serious bug, but a question to which there may be an answer that I haven't found; perhaps a setting in FreeCommander.
From time to time, I need to send files I'm working on, using my email client Thunderbird. These are mainly PDFs, but can be other files such as documents (Word, Libre), spreadsheets (Excel, Libre).
When using FreeCommander, I navigate to the file, double-click it, and it will open in its default application (Foxit Reader, Word etc.). I can then work on it, save it, and with the file still open in the application, select the file sharing dropdown from the application menu (for example, in Foxit,"Share>Email>Email Current Tab" and similar in MS Office applications). This should result in my already-running Thunderbird client opening a new mail composition window for me to input recipient etc., and with the file as an attachment. However, when I go through this routine,and after a brief interval, I get an error message ("Word couldn't send mail because of MAPI failure:Unspecified error", or an internal Foxit 000002 error), and my Thunderbird taskbar icon briefly flashes and changes colour, whilst the error message(s) I describe appear in the Word, Foxit etc. window.
This is the series of events when I am using FreeCommander, and I almost never use Windows File Explorer, and then only when it is set as the default for an application such as OneDrive and appears automatically.
However, if I go through the exact same sequence of file opening, app running and file sharing via email as I describe in Para. 3 above, using File Explorer, the sharing operation works perfectly. A new email composition window opens in Thunderbird, with my shared file as an attachment, and I can then email it to the recipient.
I don't think this is a Thunderbird problem, and I have been through all obvious settings in the applications to see if there is anything that may affect them, but this is unlikely if they will work with File Explorer but error with FreeCommander. Perhaps there is a setting in FreeCommander that I've missed or set wrongly, or something in the Registry that may need altering or adding.
I have meantime added Thunderbird as a "Sent to" in the right-click file context menu that appears in FreeCommander, and this works perfectly, to email the selected file(s) as attachments, so I'm not unable to email out of FreeCommander. It would however be useful to be able to share files as I have described from FreeCommander and the application options, and I am curious as to why these work as required in the File Explorer scenario but not in FreeCommander; with the latter being my main and sole "navigator" on the machine.