Important Notice: We're experiencing email notification issues. If you've posted a question in the community forums recently, please check your profile manually for responses while we're working to fix this.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Office word defaults to sharing to Outlook instead of Thunderbird

  • 1 reply
  • 1 has this problem
  • 3 views
  • Last reply by Matt

charity2
charity2
more options

All I want to do is share a word doc to Thunderbird but it always opens outlook. My default app for email is Thunderbird. If I cancel sharing to Outlook I get the error below.

"Word couldn't send mail because of IMAP failure: unspecified error."

All I want to do is share a word doc to Thunderbird but it always opens outlook. My default app for email is Thunderbird. If I cancel sharing to Outlook I get the error below. "Word couldn't send mail because of IMAP failure: unspecified error."

All Replies (1)

Matt
Matt
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

word only shares to outlook, it is part of the vendor locking that you pay for when you get microsoft. I bit like bing keeps opening when the windows 10 OS opens links despite my setting bot saying use edge.

I use libreoffice, they at least respect my choices of preferred applications.