How to get Windows to use your Email program to open Emails saved as files
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Microsoft Windows may not know that you want your Email program
(Mozilla's Thunderbird, in my case) to open Email messages that you saved as files.
If you double-click on your saved Email, and Windows tells you that it doesn't know
what program to use, you may use procedure.
I use the older, Classic Windows Start menu and the file suffix ".eml" for saved
Thunderbird Email messages. For example I might have saved an Email message as file:
"Dave here is your order.eml"
START
SETTINGS
CONTROL PANEL
FOLDER OPTIONS
Select FILE TYPES
NEW
File Extension: eml (enter "eml" in Create New Extension popup box)
click OK
CHANGE
select SELECT THE PROGRAM FROM A LIST
OK
scroll down the popup list of programs until you find your Email program
(click on MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD [in my case])
OK
CLOSE (closes the Folder Options window)
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