Right-clicking a file, then selecting “Send to” > “Mail recipient” is one of the most handy options in Microsoft Windows 10. If the “Mail recipient” option is missing on your computer, try the following steps.
- Hold down the “Windows Key” then press “R” to bring up the Run window.
- Type the following, then press “Enter“:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo - A window will appear. Select the “View” tab, and ensure the “File name extensions” box is checked.
- Right-click a blank area in the window, then choose “New” > “Text Document“.
- Name the file the file “MailRecipient.MAPIMail“.
Note: Be sure not to leave the “.TXT” extension on the file.
That should do the trick!
Pierre GROS says
SOLUTION :
a) create a shortcut to thunderbird on your desktop
b) drag the shortcut to the SENDTO folder in Appdata/Microsoft/ Windows
c) rename the shortcut to : Mail Recipient
It worked fine for me ,
when right clicking a file “X” , drag mouse to ” SendTo” , click ” Mail Recipient” and Thunderbird launches a message with the file X as attachment. SOLVED
David Ward says
upvote
Thanks! :)
Anne Palmer says
I use Windows 10. The “send to email recipient” always worked perfectly until Microsoft performed an update a couple of months ago.
I have tried every suggestion on the internet and none have worked. Thunderbird shows as my default email program. Outlook is my provider.
The “send to email recipient” no longer appears on the drop down menu.
Once I got “send to mail recipient” to appear in the drop down list but it took me to a strange Microsoft email program and when I tried to use it nothing happened. I deleted it.
I know I can use the “share” option but it is a huge hassle since I send lots of photos and to resize so many to email is very time consuming.
Please help!
Todd says
Nailed it! Thank you! :)
Peter Keelback says
Thank you, Samu Lamberg,
That worked brilliantly for me as now it says ‘Thunderbird’ instead of ‘mail client’ which I think is easier to understand.
Cheers,
Peter
hweeliangt@boun.cr says
I tried creating both “MailRecipient.MAPIMail” and “Mail Recipient.MAPIMail” but the context menu item still does not show up. I’ve rebooted just to be sure. File extension is .MAPIMail. I’ve tried 0 byte .MAPIMail and a single word “Mail”. I’m not sure what to try next.
A drive search found MAPImail files in 3 directories:
\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
\Users\snoopy\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-sendmail_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.17763.1_none_4baf6446742c99d9
ROB RICH says
lAKES COUNTRY U.S.A. says
January 10, 2018 at 7:04 pm
The solution is as follows as windows 10 evidently changed to this in its updates
1. Click on This Pc
2. pick from the listed file types such as pictures, Documents for example
3 . Click on document you want to email
4. Notice on very top left corner thd choice of share…click on it
5. NOTICE THE EMAIL ICON ON VERY TOP LEFT CORNER.
6. iT WORKS.
this worked for me as well
Samu Lamberg says
This process developed by combining advices of different people and weeny bit of own thinking finally enabled me to swap a stubborn old email client with new one in sending attachments with right click:
1) open the send-to folder hidden in windows as advised in beginning of this thread with steps 1-3 (“Windows Key” – “R”, type this and press enter: %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
2) add a shortcut to your email program (you can name it as you like). The shortcut has a shortcut target pointing to the executable file of your email client.
3) Add to the very end of the shortcut target line any options needed to have the email program attach file(s) for a new email. Examples for the shortcut target:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\office15\OUTLOOK.EXE” /a
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe” -osint -compose “%1”
These three steps could also replaced by register editor tweaking as well, but this way you need not take use that (it should work fine, but its misuse can utterly ruin the PC installation).
Jennifer says
Thank you lAKES COUNTRY U.S.A.Your solution works perfectly :)
Rich ROman says
neither solution worked the second one of “share” almost works but outlook doesn’t come up as one of my choices for mail
Florian Danzinger says
This works really fine except for the fact that I have to repeat the process after each system update. So I have added the ‘SendTo’ folder to the favourites and made a copy of the MailRecipient file.
Glenn Hunt says
The way to add Thurderbird as the default is to just copy a shortcut of thunderbird into the
%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo folder.
Then when you right-click on Send To you will see Thunderbird as an option.
Using Windows 10 Pro
ely says
I tried it using windows 8 and it didn’t work
Carlos Oliveira says
I tried this, but it opened up thunderbird and not Outlook, which is my default email app….anybody know how I can change this?
itai says
Thank you, it worked for me.
joe cael says
it did not solve the problem. the term “send” is missing when I have an email selected. therefore I cannot forward any email
Joel says
Here is the actual fix:
If there is a 0 bytes entry second in the list called Bluetooth, delete it. This is a bad file that stops the list from displaying.
If this is the problem the only option on the Send To menu is Bluetooth.
lAKES COUNTRY U.S.A. says
The solution is as follows as windows 10 evidently changed to this in its updates
1. Click on This Pc
2. pick from the listed file types such as pictures, Documents for example
3 . Click on document you want to email
4. Notice on very top left corner thd choice of share…click on it
5. NOTICE THE EMAIL ICON ON VERY TOP LEFT CORNER.
6. iT WORKS.
Gay says
No, this did not work for me. I was careful with all the wording, but no change occurred!! I don’t have Outlook and don’t want to get it. What a nuisance Microsoft!!!
Mike says
I have no right click menu option to SendToMail
In my C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\ folder I have a “SendTo Mail recipient.MAPIMail” file which, when opened with a text editor, reveals the contents of the file to be “Mail”
Nothing else in there.
If I double click on the file a box pops up saying “This App Can’t Run On Your PC….”
Jaime says
I wish this would’ve worked, but it did not. Well, I should say that now the “Send to” option appears when I right click, but it does nothing. It just closes the file that I was in. It does not open an email. I have Outlook set as all my defaults, so I don’t know what the problem is. I am not very computer savvy, so it may be a simple fix and I just don’t know it.
Any other ideas to fix this?
Laurel Eppstein says
This does not solve the problem. I use Thuderbird, it is the mail default, all assoc. are correct, the sendto folder contains the MailRecipient.MAPIMail file. This stopped working sometime after a Windows 10 update (I already had W10). It still doesn’t work with the latest update. This is SOO frustrating!! I recall having the same problem with W7 after awhile.