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Wht is "the path to your mail client" for the Toolbar Buttons addon?

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I have the Toolbar Buttons addon, which includes Read News, Read Mail, New Message, and Email Links buttons. I have no proble with New Message and Email Link, but to make the other buttons work I have to select "the path to your mail/news client." Until I do that, I get a dialog box with this message: "The application could not be found, please use Toolbar Buttons's options window to correct this." I assume my "mail client" is Windows 10 Mail because that is what I get when I click on the buttons that work. What does all this mean?

I have the Toolbar Buttons addon, which includes Read News, Read Mail, New Message, and Email Links buttons. I have no proble with New Message and Email Link, but to make the other buttons work I have to select "the path to your mail/news client." Until I do that, I get a dialog box with this message: "The application could not be found, please use Toolbar Buttons's options window to correct this." I assume my "mail client" is Windows 10 Mail because that is what I get when I click on the buttons that work. What does all this mean?

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BrowsingWithMozilla said

I tried sending a link to my mom's gmail address through Windows 10 Mail client by clicking on the Email Link button. She did not get it so I had to go back to the AOL client.

Please check this setting to see whether you can select Windows 10 Mail as your preferred mail program in Firefox: Change the program used to open email links.

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What program do you use for your email on the computer ? or do you ?

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I use AOL Mail, but am hoping to switch to Windows 10 Mail client with the same email address.

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That is the default email client as set in your Windows operating system.

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I have the default mail client set up for sending messages. It only fails when I click on the Read Mail button. That is what I need a path for.

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I tried sending a link to my mom's gmail address through Windows 10 Mail client by clicking on the Email Link button. She did not get it so I had to go back to the AOL client. I have no idea what the problem is and need to know how to fix it.

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BrowsingWithMozilla said

I tried sending a link to my mom's gmail address through Windows 10 Mail client by clicking on the Email Link button. She did not get it so I had to go back to the AOL client.

Please check this setting to see whether you can select Windows 10 Mail as your preferred mail program in Firefox: Change the program used to open email links.