1796742 - Files from Thunar's "send to mail recipient" plugin are no longer attached to new email

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas Sommer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0

Steps to reproduce:

Thunderbird is set as preferred mail reader in XFCE
Rightcklick on file in Thunar 4.16.11 choose "send to mail recipient".

Actual results:

New mail opens, but the file is not attached.

I opened an issue against thunar, but they suppose changes on thunderbirds side might cause this behaviour.
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/911

Expected results:

New mail opens with the file attached.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Probably bug 1793323

Comment 2

[Thomas Sommer]

I'm afraid it's not bug 1793323
This should be fixed with version 107.
I installed Thunderbird 107.0b1 and the behaviour changed:
Instead of opening a new mail without attaching the file, now a random *.part file (partial downloaded file) is created on my desktop (e.g. U_dd9oiD.part or AUw3NU0g.part ...) and no new mail is opened.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

We'd need to know what command they use.

Comment 4

[Thomas Sommer]

They use a thunar plugin named thunar-sendto-email
Quote from https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/911

Side-note: The thunar sendto plugin can be tested like this:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/Thunar/thunar-sendto-email <file>

On my (arch-based) system it's actually
/usr/lib/Thunar/thunar-sendto-email <file>

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yes but that must call some other commands to launch thunderbird

Comment 6

[Thomas Sommer]

I asked one of the Thunar maintainers to take a look at this thread.

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/911#note_a18e9578409e4c2aa849828bffed2fc78e8bd89e

Theo L · 2022-11-02
Works fine here. Tested with Thunderbird 102.4.1 and involved Xfce components updated to 4.17 (Thunar, xfce4-settings, exo).