Thunderbird can't be set as the preferred mail app

[Brian Rogers]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Recently in natty, Thunderbird disappeared from the 'Preferred Applications' control panel. If I go to System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications, Evolution is selected as the current mail reader, and Thunderbird isn't available in the drop-down, even though it is installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: thunderbird 3.1.8+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-2.29-generic 2.6.38-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-2-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 8 17:55:12 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

[Stefan Ebner (sebner)]

I'm seeing this too so setting to Confirmed