[ubuntu-uk] Thunderbird, Open office and default mail application in Ubuntu

Gordon gbplinux at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 10:48:07 GMT 2009


Neil Greenwood wrote:
> 2009/12/16 Gordon <gbplinux at gmail.com>:
>> Neil Greenwood wrote:
>>> 2009/12/14 Gordon <gbplinux at gmail.com>:
>>>> Steve wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:18:47 -0000, Gordon <gbplinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've come across this problem before in previous versions of Ubuntu (now
>>>>>> using 9.04 and OO 3.0.1).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Set Thunderbird as preferred Email client, uninstalled Evolution, and
>>>>>> when I go to use the Send function in OO it tells me it can't find the
>>>>>> email client.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a way round this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Tools > Options > Internet > E-mail
>>>>>
>>>> Doh! Thanks very much.....
>>>>
>>> It's a problem with the Gnome integration of OOo. Maybe report it as a bug?
>>>
>>> Neil.
>>>
>> I would have thought it's more likely a problem with the tight
>> integration of Evolution into Gnome, rather than OO...
>>
> 
> You set up Thunderbird as the preferred email client in System >
> Preferences > Preferred Applications? That's the Gnome place to
> specify which application you want to use. OO should honour this
> setting, instead of requiring another setting in its own preferences.
> 
> Just my opinion of course.
> 
> Neil.
> 

Yes I did that. That was the first thing I did!
However when I uninstalled Evolution, I got the error message above when
trying to email from OO.

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