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When I click on an e-mail message link I get an error message that says "There was a problem sending the command to the program" How can this be fixed?

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ahivry44
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When I click on an internet e-mail link I get an error message that says "There was a problem sending this command to the program"

Does anyone know how to get rid of this problem?

When I click on an internet e-mail link I get an error message that says "There was a problem sending this command to the program" Does anyone know how to get rid of this problem?

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cor-el
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This can be a problem with DDE.

See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_error_opening_Internet_shortcut_or_local_HTML_file_-_Firefox

xine
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My problem was resolved when I disabled the FoxyProxy add-on that I had installed. Someone mentioned this in another forum and it worked for me.