can I use send to mail recipient with the mail app?

Thanks for your input. There are several instances where the Legacy desktop and the Metro apps do not work together. A program should be able to access another app. This seems to me to be a major fault on Microsoft's part. Hopefully they will resolve that issue soon. I fully agree with Kate-PC.

The email program that you can download from Microsoft is Windows Live Mail.

 

 

No, we want the Send-to dialog to open the Metro mail

I have read this thread and understand the original question (why is there no integration between legacy and Metro apps, when it comes to Mail) as well as the more advanced responses that followed suite.

 

I think the issue is that "Desktop" is a rather "divisive" and counter-intuitive app if one needs to install Outlook or Windows Mail in order to use "Send to - Mail Recipient" from File Explorer. Yes, the more technical ones amongst us understand the differences in OS, but seriously, Windows 8 is all about immersive App experience and users really need *not* have any technical pre-requisites to know how to bridge the 2 world like tinkling with "Default Programs" settings and that hassle. It really should just work.

 

The scenario is that one could be working in Paint and have saved something to a folder, hence is working in the Desktop/ File Explorer environment. Thus ideally, when one clicks "Send to- Mail recipient" for the selected files, say images, it should automatically invoke Mail (Metro) and bring the user there for further (text) inputs and ultimately, hit "send".

 

Microsoft, are you reading this?

 

zhudm

 

Kate-PC had this to say in another thread on the same issue ... SUCCINCTLY, if I may add :-

"If File Explorer doesn't or can't open the metro Mail app - then the send to mail recipient command shouldn't be offered. If you want to send files via email, I would probably add them as attachments in the Mail app. "

Ah, that clarifies your problem.  You're trying to use Windows Explorer in the Desktop in order to "share" files.  Remember, anything you do in the Desktop is LEGACY, which means all the Windows 7 rules apply.  In this case, you'd have to have Windows Mail or Outlook installed and configured as your email client.

HOWEVER, depending on the file and what app is used with it, you can use the SHARE charm to send it that way.  Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn't fully extended the Share capability to interface with all files...it's app-dependent.  I tried to follow a parallel process in Metro by doing the following:

Bring up the Search charm

Typed in a filename I wanted to share

Switched the context option from Apps to Files

Right-clicked the file that showed up (this puts a checkmark on the file)

Bring up the Share charm

.....<sad trombone> Got the message "This app can't share".

BTW, you can bring up the charms while in the desktop, too, but you also get a message saying that essentially you can't "share" from the Desktop.

So, you'll either need to setup Windows Mail (or Outlook) in the Desktop so you can use the legacy sharing method, or if you can access the files you're trying to send via a Metro app you can Share from the charms bar.

Thanks, but I've already set up an AOL account for use with it. I can send and receive messages just fine, but not through Explorer.