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February 28, 2007

Attention Vista Thunderbird users - we have stuff to test!

To get this out more widely, here is some great news from mscott, our Thunderbird lead developer:

Hi Vista Testers,

We now have nightly *trunk* builds available that include Vista integration for Thunderbird. In particular, we now support making Thunderbird the default mail or the default news client in Vista.

If you would like to spend some time testing a trunk build, we'd appreciate the help and the feedback. You can get the bits here.

Here are some suggestions for testing:

* Setting as the default mail and/or the default news client from within Thunderbird (you should get prompted the first time you start up after you have an account)
* In Set Default Programs, you should see Thunderbird and Thunderbird (News) listed under Programs.
* Going through Set Default Programs, Thunderbird (News) registers the following urls: news, snews, and nntp urls. Thunderbird registers mailto urls and .eml documents.
* Save a message as a .eml file. Try opening that file from Vista, it should open a stand alone message window in Thunderbird.
* Try registering for individual protocols.
* Test MAPI. Right click on a file, choose Send To / Mail Recipients. this should open a Thunderbird compose window if Thunderbird is the default application.
* Test uninstalling the app.

We hope to have Thunderbird 2 based branch builds available with these same changes in the next couple of days.

Thanks!

-Team Thunderbird

P.S. On Windows XP, thunderbird also lets you register as the default feed url handler for RSS feeds. We haven't figured out what to do in Vista yet, so that doesn't work.

Posted by marcia at February 28, 2007 9:39 AM

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