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

Hi,

Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for providing an opportunity to help you.

With regards to the issue, I would like to let you know that you need to add the respective Email account to the Mail app in order to send mails from Mail app.

Please refer to the link below to add the Email account to the Mail app:

Refer to the section “How do I add my email account to Mail?”

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/mail-faq

Please write us back if the issue still persists.

Good to know moderators have no idea what they are talking about.

Thank you. This worked. The only hard part was finding the well-hidden SendTo folder, so thanks for giving that information too.

If like me you are having this issue trying to send photos from from desktop explorer to an Outlook recipient in Windows 8.1 / Office 365.  Use this link but be sure to use 'Joseph's Script' it's an easy fix. Hope this helps somebody. 

Thanks to Slipstick Systems for saving me another day of searching forums for the answer.

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/create-a-custom-send-to-shortcut/

By the way hit the windows key+R and enter " shell:sendto " to take you straight to the folder where you will need to save the file, be sure to use the right file extension (not txt) it's all in the instructions on the link above.

I read it just fine.  I believe that you folks aren't understanding that, YES, there's a disconnect between Metro and Desktop and it's intentional.  Metro is where Microsoft is going, like it or not.  The functionality that has been discussed here is available on the Metro side, it's just a different method of thinking about it.  Microsoft made no secret about the fact that you can still get what used to be the Windows Live Essentials, which included the desktop Mail program, and install it on the Windows 8 Desktop.  But they're TRYING to get everyone to embrace the Metro side.  Such concepts as "Send To" is an old desktop thing.  "Share" is the mobile concept--just like on the phones and tablets.  As I said, the "disconnect" is purposeful.  You clearly don't like it, and that's fine.  There's nothing stopping people from just staying with Windows 7 or installing legacy software onto the Windows 8 Desktop side and living there.  I think it's silly, but then I have long wanted to see the end of the old desktop.  I'm a power user and I have my entire podcasting and music studio migrated to Windows 8, and I've no issues that weren't simply attributed to a small learning curve.

I completely disagree that these are stupid changes.  I, too, grew up from the old TRaSh-80 days.  And I don't pretend that the Metro side was kicked out fully mature, ether.  I worked with the Developer Preview, the Consumer Preview and the Release Preview, and watched the various bits come into fruition.  Some things I agree with, some I don't.  But I GET them, and I'm not stuck in the past.  I WANT this to move forward.  I've not lost a single bit of functionality in transition because I've purposefully begun to divorce myself from old-school.  It's time to put down the buggy whip.

Hi Scuba! yes true in this age and time we should think mobile and metro  especiallty in the case of Windows 8.  Unfortunately in windows 8.1, Microsoft team failed to get rid of the DESKTOP and integrate some of its functionalities in the Metro. You see.. there are files and data that auto open in DESKTOP even if you try to pin them in the START> in short you cant find them in Metro. 

In my case, just like some of those who expressed exasperation of the "limitations" and the "disconnect"----I  want the convenience and the flexibility in the UI I experience in my MacBook Pro wherein---- wherever I am ---may it be from safari or right from my desktop or docs file, all I need to do is right click and presto I can share via email and I don't need a 3rd party app to integrate it. Meaning, I don't need the cumbersome or extra steps  to GO FIRST TO MY EMAIL APP---THEN compose A NEW MAIL SO I CAN  ATTACH THE FILE I WANT TO SEND VIA EMAIL.--- when I can do that BY directly emailing my docs from my desktop by right clicking on selected file and send to recipient or hit the share option within the file which is suppose to direct me to my mail app.

Its been 2 days now that I have been trying to find a fix to integrate my desktop file explorer with my metro mail so I can directly send email from the desktop----but nada. No luck yet.  Its really annoying that OPTIONS "to share "when you open a file in desktop and 'send to mail recipient" are made available yet it renders useless because every time you try to click on the said options, what you get is just a prompt that no default mail is configured. Unlike in my Dell Latitude 10 with Windows 8 Pro, I have no complaints--- once I open any docs in my file explorer and hit the send to recipient or share from the desktop--- it does work...email opens and sends. That's why I cant understand why in my Lenovo miix 2 with a more updated OS (windows 8.1) it wont work :-(

HELLO Microsoft!!! I hope you are listening...I appreciate and I like the Metro but since you made the DESKTOP  still present... you might as well find a quick fix to integrate (legacy) desktop with Metro.

then you don't have a problem. Just use any desktop mail client like you would in Win7 and you will be fine. This problem concerns only people who actually wants to use metro style mail but still using a desktop.

"Share" concept is ok for me, it just doesn't work in explorer (and other file commanders).

As for me, I've installed usable disk manager app. Doesn't work as good as desktop FM, but is better then explorer. And I'm sending files from that (and do other things when I'm using touch interface).