I talked to the Debian maintainer as well and he isn't sure how it would have ever worked to automatically open Thunderbird. Also from what I can see I am not sure if using xdg-email would work for Thunderbird since they apparently do weird things for attachments, from what I have read online. I will try to setup a test environment to make sure that switching over to xdg-email will work, but as a work around until then just put 'thunderbird' in that dialog as you have already.
Thanks, Chris ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Milestone: ubuntu-9.04 => None ** Summary changed: - openoffice 'send document as email' no longer obeys gnomes preferred applications + openoffice 'send document as email' should use xdg-email and does not work by default for Thunderbird -- openoffice 'send document as email' should use xdg-email and does not work by default for Thunderbird https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356279 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs