204690 - extend -remote xfeDoCommand(composemessage) to support adding attachments to the compose

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 149126

(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, enhancement)

Description

[Joe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Currently, -remote has two ways to launch the messenger compose window:
1. -remote openURL(mailtoURL)
2. -remote xfeDoCommand(composemessage)
Neither supports to adding attachments. 
Since the commandline "mozilla -compose attachment=fileURL" has such a feature,
so it would be nice to extend xfeDoCommand to accept attachments args in
x-remote mode.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.launch a process of mozilla if there isn't being one
2.launch: mozilla -remote "xfeDoCommand(composemessage)" to launch the compose
window
3.

Actual Results:  
Cannot insert any arguments such as to,cc, especially attachment to the compose
window launched.

Expected Results:  
be able to launch the compose window with informations passed as arguments, the
command would look like: 
mozilla -remote "xfeDoCommand(composemessage
to=[e-mail],attachment=fileURL)"

Comment 1

[Joe]

Currently, the XRemoteService handle the xfeDoCommand(composeMessage) by
converting to "mailto:" URL, and passing it to the mailtoURL handler.
I'm thinking maybe we can change it to openwindow with the messengercompose xul
as what xfeDoCommand(openBrowser) dose now.
thus we can also parse the arguments to accept to,cc,attachments.   

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

dupe of "Mail Client doesn't work correctly with Open Office with rpm builds"
that bug already has a patch

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149126 ***