An accountant needed to setup the latest myob v17 on a customers computer, but found an aspect that didn’t work: the send to… email option (eg for invoices and quotes) didn’t work.

It seems the problem is either with vistas windows mail, or with myob itself.

So I found the easiest solution was to install mozilla thunderbird (to replace windows mail).

The installation and configuration were as easy as most other email clients.

And a test from MYOB found that it could now send emails via thunderbird.

The only problem was that I couldn’t find a way to transfer emails from windows mail to thunderbird (but I managed to transfer the address book by exporting to a CSV file).