139571 - OpenComposeWindow should take an xpcom const char * array instead of a single string

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[David :Bienvenu]

OpenComposeWindow should take an xpcom const char * array instead of a single
string uri (with multiple uri's separated by commas), so that we don't have to
parse the uri's and run into problems when the folder itself has a ',' in the
name. This means that nsIMsgComposeParams should probably be extended to support
an array of msg uri's. This will also make it easier to fix the bug where we
won't set the replied/forwarded status of messages in folders with ',' in the
name, because that code also just expects comma delimited folder uri's.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

the reason we are using a string is because the compose window can be open from
a command line using the same syntax.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

I guess that means that commas in the uri's would need to be escaped, or we need a different separator. I'm not sure what the use case is where we pass in multiple uri's separated by a comma (perhaps forward of multiple messages?)