Send Mail with Filemaker 5 and Thunderbird

[Eggshen]

The send mail script step seems to do nothing with Thunderbird 1.0.2. Where before, in Entourage, the mail would appear in the outbox, Thunderbird does nothing. No message appears in the outbox. It would seem that Filemaker is not capable with working with Thunderbird.

Has anyone else solved this problem or aware of it?

In a different thread, a plugin was suggested to bypass the e-mail client. Is this the only solution?

[Vaughan]

Send Mail script step only works with limited mail programs. It appears that Thunderbird isn't one of them.

An alternative is to use Open URL scipt step, and specify a mailto: as the address. This will force the browser to create the mail message.

[QuinTech]

Works for me with FileMaker Pro 6 and Thunderbird 1.0.2, though (counter-intuitively) only if Thunderbird is closed when I execute the script step. Try that.

Jerry

[Eggshen]

No dice with Thunderbird closed. It's probably a silly OS X issue. Thanks for the help though!

[Steve T.]

Howdy, Egg! Big trouble in little FileMaker? It's probably nothing and you've probably already done it, but did you make sure Thunderbird is the selected default mail application? I think in Jaguar, you have to set it from Safari. Also, are you using FM5 Classic or FM5.5 OSX? Just curious since I was thinking of taking a look at Thunderbird soon, anyway, and we use FM5 via Classic, FM5.5 via OS X, and FM6 via OSX. Jerry QT's trick is probably just XP.

If I do get Thunderbird and get it working w/FM5, I'll try to post it.

--ST

[QuinTech]

You're right, Steve. I haven't tried it on the Mac.