247754 - mozilla-xremote-client needs -a Thunderbird with capital T

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 244060

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Aron Griffis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618 Firefox/0.9

With mozilla-1.7, firefox-0.9 and thunderbird-0.7 mozilla-xremote-client became
capable of selecting a target for its operations.  This is a huge relief to
users... thank you! :-)

However it appears that thunderbird has a bug in this regard.  Whereas firefox
and mozilla can be selected with "mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox" and
"mozilla-xremote-client -a mozilla" respectively, thunderbird requires a capital
T, i.e. "mozilla-xremote-client -a Thunderbird".  This would see to be a bug,
since even the help message suggests that it should be lowercase:

mozilla-xremote-client -h
Usage: mozilla-xremote-client [-a firefox|thunderbird|mozilla|any]
                              [-u <username>]
                              [-p <profile>] COMMAND


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. /usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/mozilla-xremote-client -a thunderbird 'ping()'
   /usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to find a
running server.
2. /usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/mozilla-xremote-client -a Thunderbird 'ping()'
   (works)

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

Darin/Brian do either of you know about these recent xremote changes in 1.7/fx 0.9? 

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

I don't... cc'ing blizzard.

Comment 3

[Peter Janes]

Confirmed in thunderbird official 20040628 trunk build and Firefox 0.9. 
Performing "strings thunderbird-bin | grep thunderbird" returns nothing, while
the same command on an older build from 20040522 returns one line.

I don't know if this is related, but when using "Thunderbird" as the target in
the new build I get "Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error" on
mailto(), e.g. "mozilla-xremote-client -a Thunderbird 'mailto()'" or
"mozilla-xremote-client -a Thunderbird 'mailto([e-mail])'".  ping() works
fine.

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244060 ***