From: Gordon on

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr(a)REMOVECAPSmvps.org> wrote in message
news:uMN7fcL9KHA.3592(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> To be able to Send from Word, you would need to have an account set up in
> Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail

AFAIAA Thunderbird is fully MAPI compliant. I've always been able to send a
document from Word when TBird is set as default....