That might have resolved it for me.īut I didn’t get that Mozilla page when I first searched, so instead I found another way that may be useful in some situations.

To do that, I had to go into Tools > Options > Advanced icon (not Advanced tab) > General icon. The Mozilla page offered a reminder that I could set Thunderbird Portable to check whether it was the default email client. I got this error:Ĭould not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed.Ī search indicated that there were only a few sources of information specific to the portable version of Thunderbird. While browsing online, I clicked an email (i.e., mailto) link.

Verdict:Įvolution rather than revolution is the buzzword for Thunderbird, but all the improvements are welcome, nonetheless.I was using Windows 7. Note that this is the portable version of Thuderbird. With advanced security, phishing protection and automatic updating, coupled with countless other features which are simply not found in other email clients, Thunderbird is the ideal program to handle your email correspondence and much more. Getting started with the email client has been greatly simplified thanks to automatic account setting detection and nice touches such as the appearance of a warning if an email is written which includes the word 'attached' but no attachment is added make Thunderbird a joy to use. There are new tools available to make it easier to manage a burgeoning inbox Email archival makes it possible to remove messages from your main inbox while retaining them for future reference, and the advanced search facility takes the hard works out of tracking down messages using a keyword filtering and timeline system.Īs is the case with Firefox, Thunderbird supports addons can be used to customise and extend the features of the program. In addition to handling multiple email accounts, the program can also be used to subscribe to RSS feeds and access online newsgroups and a new tabbed interface makes it easy to jump between individual emails or different aspects of the program. Thunderbird is an email client from Mozilla, the organisation better known for the Firefox web browser which has a great deal to offer.

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