Hi Doug,
Both Outlook Express and Thunderbird support 'SimpleMAPI'. The information here may be helpful.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/MAPI_support
I'm able to use either one in Word 2003 and/or Word 2007 as the email client when it's set as the default (link at the bottom of the
above article).
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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ...
According to
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...f0e4a34f9e060b
and several other messages turned up by searching the archived Word
newsgroups via Google Groups for Thunderbird and Email, Thunderbird is not MAPI compliant.
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Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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