compress & email

I could swear that last year when I right clicked on a photo file (.jpg) 
and selected presumably windows "Compress & Email" that it opened
and 
was ready to be sent from TB.

Now it's opening MSFT office outlook, and I can't locate a method to 
change the default.  Or another method to compress perhaps?  I tried 
zipping up on photo but it was only reduced by one kb!   Of course, I 
could open each in some other program and reduce the size, etc., but was 
looking for the easy method.

On 4/14/2008 8:13 PM, Miles wrote:
> I could swear that last year when I right clicked on a photo file (.jpg) 
> and selected presumably windows "Compress & Email" that it
opened and 
> was ready to be sent from TB.
> 
> Now it's opening MSFT office outlook, and I can't locate a method to 
> change the default.  Or another method to compress perhaps?  I tried 
> zipping up on photo but it was only reduced by one kb!   Of course, I 
> could open each in some other program and reduce the size, etc., but was 
> looking for the easy method.
> Miles
Go into your control panel under Internet Options and on the programs 
tab make sure Email is set to Mozilla Thunderbird.  It seems to me that 
windows updates sometimes set that back to Outlook.

* David Pyles wrote, On 4/14/2008 17:28:
> On 4/14/2008 8:13 PM, Miles wrote:
>> I could swear that last year when I right clicked on a photo file 
>> (.jpg) and selected presumably windows "Compress & Email"
that it 
>> opened and was ready to be sent from TB.
>>
>> Now it's opening MSFT office outlook, and I can't locate a method to 
>> change the default.  Or another method to compress perhaps?  I tried 
>> zipping up on photo but it was only reduced by one kb!   Of course, I 
>> could open each in some other program and reduce the size, etc., but 
>> was looking for the easy method.
>> Miles
> Go into your control panel under Internet Options and on the programs 
> tab make sure Email is set to Mozilla Thunderbird.  It seems to me that 
> windows updates sometimes set that back to Outlook.
> Dave Pyles

Right on, Dave, thank you!  However it still sends a very large file -- 
only a kb smaller than the original file.  I was under the impression 
that it would compact it, but guess not.  So my only choice is to always 
use another program such Adobe or ACDSee to first reduce the size of the 
photo (presumably as a copy), then "compact & email" that.

On 4/15/2008 2:06 AM, Miles wrote:
> * David Pyles wrote, On 4/14/2008 17:28:
>> On 4/14/2008 8:13 PM, Miles wrote:
>>> I could swear that last year when I right clicked on a photo file 
>>> (.jpg) and selected presumably windows "Compress &
Email" that it 
>>> opened and was ready to be sent from TB.
>>>
>>> Now it's opening MSFT office outlook, and I can't locate a method
to 
>>> change the default.  Or another method to compress perhaps?  I
tried 
>>> zipping up on photo but it was only reduced by one kb!   Of course,
I 
>>> could open each in some other program and reduce the size, etc.,
but 
>>> was looking for the easy method.
>>> Miles
>> Go into your control panel under Internet Options and on the programs 
>> tab make sure Email is set to Mozilla Thunderbird.  It seems to me 
>> that windows updates sometimes set that back to Outlook.
>> Dave Pyles
> 
> Right on, Dave, thank you!  However it still sends a very large file -- 
> only a kb smaller than the original file.  I was under the impression 
> that it would compact it, but guess not.  So my only choice is to always 
> use another program such Adobe or ACDSee to first reduce the size of the 
> photo (presumably as a copy), then "compact & email" that.
> Miles
Glad you were able to make the email part work.  Thunderbird doesn't do 
the compressing, so I don't know how to help with that, except by 
suggesting that you reduce the size of your image before you put it into 
your original file.  That's what I usually do.

David Pyles wrote:
> On 4/14/2008 8:13 PM, Miles wrote:
>> I could swear that last year when I right clicked on a photo file 
>> (.jpg) and selected presumably windows "Compress & Email"
that it 
>> opened and was ready to be sent from TB.
>>
>> Now it's opening MSFT office outlook, and I can't locate a method to 
>> change the default.  Or another method to compress perhaps?  I tried 
>> zipping up on photo but it was only reduced by one kb!   Of course, I 
>> could open each in some other program and reduce the size, etc., but 
>> was looking for the easy method.
>> Miles
> Go into your control panel under Internet Options and on the programs 
> tab make sure Email is set to Mozilla Thunderbird.  It seems to me that 
> windows updates sometimes set that back to Outlook.
> Dave Pyles


I got the exact same problem today.  But for me TB is definitely set as 
DEFAULT MAIL.  Oddly, if I try emailing a jpg from with Picassa, then TB 
is the mail program that it opens.  But trying to email a jpg from 
within Windows is giving me Outlook.....