1086272 - Yahoo emails are no longer pre-populated

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

STR:
1. Go to Tools/Options/Applications in Firefox and set 'mailto'='always ask'
2. Click on the Loop icon/Email
3. Choose yahoo
4. Login with your yahoo account 

Expected results:
Compose message window displayed having the title and the body auto completed

Actual results:
Empty compose message window displayed

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

This is not a regression, something has changed on the yahoo side.

Comment 2

[u279076]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly] from comment #1)
> This is not a regression, something has changed on the yahoo side.

Release Management, do we have any contacts at Yahoo we could reach out to?

Comment 3

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

I think the answer is yes. cc Karl, who may have a contact from Web compat work, and Chris Lee, who has helped us out with Yahoo! in the past.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Yes. 
but not sure what the Loop Client is, and what is the issue. 

/me is searching online and find.
https://github.com/mozilla/loop-client

What the loop client does, what is being sent to Yahoo! If you could details the technical issues in the bug that would help I guess. 

In the meantime, I will point my contact to this bug.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

email to Yahoo! contact sent.

Comment 6

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

(In reply to Karl Dubost :karlcow from comment #4)
> Yes. 
> but not sure what the Loop Client is, and what is the issue. 

High level overview of Hello (Loop) http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-hello-webrtc-feature-in-firefox-beta/

Comment 0 has the STR but I don't know exactly how Loop interacts with Yahoo!.

Comment 7

[u279076]

(In reply to Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] from comment #6)
> Comment 0 has the STR but I don't know exactly how Loop interacts with
> Yahoo!.

When Yahoo Mail is set as Firefox's default email handler, you click the Email button in the Firefox Hello panel, you should be taken to the Yahoo Mail compose page. The message should be pre-populated with a subject line and message body referencing the call URL.

Recently this stopped being the case and Yahoo Mail just gives us a compose page with no message body or subject.

Comment 8

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

This is not specific to the Hello panel functionality at all, but you should be able to reproduce this with _any_ mailto: link.

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Attachment: mailto-chooser.png

I have difficulty to figure out how this is working. 
/me is testing.
<a href="mailto:[e-mail]?subject=awesome+email&body=hello+love">send love</a>

Ah! The missing piece for me in the step to reproduce was to understand that Firefox was proposing already something specific for Yahoo!

So the URI is https://compose.mail.yahoo.com/

It means the browser receives 
https://login.yahoo.com/m?.intl=us&.src=ym&.done=https%3A%2F%2Fcompose.mail.yahoo.com%2F%3FTo%3Dmailto%253Afoo%2540example.org%253Fsubject%253Dawesome%252Bemail%2526body%253Dhello%252Blove

The compose window opens but the to, the subject and the body are lost in the process.
The URI is a view with an id number which is working if we open in a separate window. but still no body/subject/to.
https://aa-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?action=compose&.rand=<an_id>#<an_id>

ok this should help Yahoo!

Comment 12

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Sent a reminder to my Yahoo! Contact.

Comment 13

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Paul, 
do you still have the issue?

Comment 14

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Now both the title and the body are auto-filled in the title section.
FF 40.0.2, 43.0a1 (2015-08-16) Win 7 x64.

Comment 15

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Attachment: body in the title.png

Comment 16

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Heh. Almost there :) Karl, there's a follow-up task for you!

Comment 17

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

needinfo me would be a better way to attract my eyes ^_^

I contacted Yahoo!

Comment 19

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

This has been fixed.