Open
Bug 144484
Opened 22 years ago
Updated 11 years ago
"Send Page ..." menu option does not integrate with external mail clients (Outlook, Eudora, etc.)
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: feanor73, Assigned: jag+mozilla)
References
Details
Outlook is my default mail client AND I have modified my user preferences to include: "// Use default mail client user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);" The menu option "Send Page ..." from the right-click menu or from the File menu opens up Mozilla Mail instead of a new Outlook window. Note that "mailto:" links properly open with a new Outlook window now that I have added the above user preference. Mozilla 1.0 RC 1 Build ID "2002041711".
Comment 1•22 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11459 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
REOPEN: mailto: -> system default when mailnews installed works, but that is not the problem here. Send link could work via a mailto: URL (see bug 152526), but not Send Page, because of RFC 2368. The mailto URL is primarily intended for generation of short text messages that are actually the content of automatic processing (such as "subscribe" messages for mailing lists), not general MIME bodies. Unless there is some MAPI alternative, this might not be possible, and if it was possible, perhaps Windows-only.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Comment 3•21 years ago
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-> XP APPS
Assignee: matti → jaggernaut
Component: Browser-General → XP Apps
QA Contact: imajes-qa → paw
Comment 4•21 years ago
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This bug is a duplicate of bug 152526.
Comment 5•21 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152526 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
REOPEN: Bug 152526 can be fixed by using mailto: URLs for the menu command. As I've said here, that is not possible w/ send page.
Status: VERIFIED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Comment 8•21 years ago
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I can confirm this. From Bug 152526 Comment 9 Some organizations do not use Mozilla MailNews and are tied to Outlook for one reason or another. Having Send Page/Link use Mozilla Mail can be a major issue for them.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 9•21 years ago
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Given what happened with bug 144828, I'd guess this bug is not fixable. Even if Outlook has some interface to pass it an entire block of data for mailing, it's likely proprietary and I doubt that anyone wants to start making Outlook- specific fixes to Mozilla or Thunderbird.
Comment 10•21 years ago
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If we are talking about Windows-only, MAPI might do this, and there is some support for that in mozilla code base. My point is that send link and send page are very different (even though they sound like the same thing).
Comment 11•21 years ago
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A windows only MAPI solution would work for me.
Comment 12•21 years ago
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This is one of the nice things about IE: I can send a page from it into Eudora and don't have to use their mail client (Outlook in this case).
OS: Windows 2000 → Windows 95
Summary: "Send Page ..." menu option does not integrate with Outlook → "Send Page ..." menu option does not integrate with external mail clients (Outlook, Eudora, etc.)
Comment 13•21 years ago
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*** Bug 209730 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14•21 years ago
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IE saves the page and passes the file to the mail client as an attachment. Would this approach be easier than attempting to send the page as the message? We could almost get around using MAPI; however, many mail clients do not support mailto:recipient?attachment="filename" syntax.
Comment 15•21 years ago
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That is a good idea. Does anyone know if that is a de facto parameter that is commonly used? It is not part of the spec: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html
Comment 16•21 years ago
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I might have worded that poorly. IE _uses MAPI_, but saves the file and sends it as an attachment.
Comment 17•21 years ago
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I just thought of something. We could call the Send To->Mail Recipient that Explorer uses, which is basically a virtual drag-and-drop of the attachment into the mail program. I found info on that here: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/sendtomail.asp?print=true Unfortunately, it looks like you have to simulate the drag-and-drop; there is no command line method of attaching the file. I don't know which is easier to interface, MAPI directly, or Send To. Here's a MAPI send mail implementation that doesn't look too bad: http://codeguru.com/internet/imapi.shtml
Comment 18•21 years ago
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Send To | Mail Recipient is just an OS wrapper that invokes the systemwide MAPI client. Programmatically, using MAPI would be much simpler. re: comment 14: Are there *any* mail clients that support ?attachment=filename on a mailto: URL? Mozilla accepts an attachment spec on the command line, but not (AFAICT) on a mailto.
Comment 19•20 years ago
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*** Bug 228863 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20•20 years ago
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*** Bug 233432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21•20 years ago
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Benc, you said there's some MAPI support in the codebase... is there any documentation on how that code works? It seems it's only in mailnews and may onl y be for address book stuff... i.e. it might only be incoming and not outgoing...
Comment 22•20 years ago
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*** Bug 254259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 23•19 years ago
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Aaron: ask mscott or sspitzer about it, they were working @netscape when that stuff was added.
Comment 24•19 years ago
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Something's wrong with this picture - IE can do it and mozilla can't??
Updated•19 years ago
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Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
Comment 25•19 years ago
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*** Bug 254259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 26•18 years ago
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*** Bug 254259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 28•15 years ago
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At some point, Safari added support for this. I don't know how it works, or when it was added, but I tried it w/ Mail.app, and it works.
Comment 29•14 years ago
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Since this bug originally dealt with SeaMonkey (presumably Mozilla Suite at the time), & since neither SeaMonkey 2 (probably since Bug 152526 landed) nor FF any longer have a "File | Send Page...", should this be marked as <INVALID>? As far as having this functionality, I was told, "<NeilAway> therube: we can't send a page to an external mail client".
Comment 30•14 years ago
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No, but I guess you could make it a RFE.
Comment 31•12 years ago
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I think this can be marked as RESOLVED INVALID, WONTFIX or WORKSFORME, as the send page functionality isn't in Firefox anymore.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago → 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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Comment 32•12 years ago
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Still exists in: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110828 SeaMonkey/2.6a1 Re-opening.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
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Updated•12 years ago
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Status: REOPENED → NEW
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