Scanning Document to email

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Ive found lately that the brother software does not like working with thunderbird, seems to be an issue in windows 10 or 11.
If anyone has a solution, i would be interested to know, the brother software appears to not have been updated very recently.
Ive tried a bunch of registry hacks with not much success, reset all the default apps, mailto associations etc.
Personally I dont bother with any of the bundled software and just use NAPS2, but many users enjoy the convenience of pressing the button on the printer.

Some light reading for you - I copied this from somewhere years ago

FIX FOR BROTHER CONTROLCENTER4 "NO DEFAULT EMAIL APPLICATION" SCAN TO EMAIL PROBLEM
THE ISSUE
One of my customers is still using Windows Live Mail as their default email client. They're currently running the Windows 10 1709 "Fall Creators Update," and sometimes for whatever reason they lose their ability to scan to email from their Brother MFC-7240 through ControlCenter4.

In previous versions of Windows 10 you could open the old control panel and go to Set Program Access and Defaults (SPAD), click on the custom radiobutton and choose live mail to fix this issue. Since the release of 1709 the link to SPAD opens up the settings app and takes you to the Default Apps page. Unfortunately choosing Windows Live Mail as the default handler for mail here doesn't fix the problem.

It turns out that this is because ControlCenter4 is using the default MAPI settings, not the default program setting that this app lets you configure. As the MAPI registry key is no longer updated when you set a default program, CC4 can't see the setting and throws this error.

THE SOLUTION
Changing the default MAPI client using the registry.

Run regedit and open this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail

You will notice that there are different sub keys for each folder. One for "Microsoft Outlook", "Outlook Express", "Opera", etc. these are the registered mail clients.

Inside the Mail folder there should be a value called "(Default)". You need to change the value to the name of one of these subfolders

For example, since I want to use Windows Live Mail, I open the "mail" folder, double click on the "Default" key, and set its value to Windows Live Mail

After hitting ok it works. If you want to use a different client just set the key to the name of one of the other subfolders in the mail folder and it should work.

and this is the reg file I use for it

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]
@="Mozilla Thunderbird"

used it last towards the end of last year and sorted the issue - ymmv