237148 - Disable unsupported mail functionality on Sunbird

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[Dave]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla Calendar 2004010914-cal

I have calendar installed in both TBird and Mozilla. Right clicking on an event
and choosing "email selected event(s)" in mozilla does nothing, although it
seems to have limited functionality when calendar is launched from TBird. Also
it would be nice if the plugins for each could share the same config file. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Faustine]

I also have this problem.... Checking the email reminder does nothing. HELP~

Comment 2

[Jonathan Ernst]

I can confirm this bug.

In Sunbird clicking on email selected event doesn't call thunderbird (or any
othe client) to send an e-mail altough the mailto: protocol is properly registered.

In Calendar for thunderbird it works.

This has been confirmed on Windows 98 with latest thunderbird and latest sunbird
and calendar.

I'm currently migrating some of my users from outlook to
firefox/thunderbird/sunbird and this is really a problem (they are now asking me
to put outlook back which really don't want). Along with the bug
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252736 this is a really blocker for
my attempt to integrate mozilla based tools into this company.

Comment 3

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

known bug, though surprised there was no Bug report before this...

see netscape.public.mozilla.calendar

The issue is that the smtp features needed are not built in sunbird, or FF

For reference, it does work in Suite, and as noted, Thunderbird.

Comment 4

[gekacheka]

*** Bug 274563 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[gekacheka]

-> general

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 277675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 282008 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 274717 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 292144 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Lawrie Conole]

I installed the latest nightly build of Calendar for Thunderbird on 10 June
2005, but it turns out to be the one for Firefox.  Not sure how that comes to
be.  Anyhow, I cannot e-mail selected events from the Calendar - and maybe
that's because it's attached to FF???

Comment 11

[Joey Minta]

*** Bug 300359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Joey Minta]

*** Bug 314212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Kristof Coomans]

Same here for Sunbird 0.3a1

(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051104 Mozilla Sunbird/0.3a1)

Comment 14

[Adrian Williams]

I notice that the severity of this bug has been set to minor.  This is a remarkably annoying bug for me. Partly because it is a feature that I would like to use.  And partly because I would have thought that this would be quite straight forward to fix.  Admittedly, I have no experience of any Mozilla code, but Firefox has code to email a link to somebody.  In this case, it would also need to attach an ics export of the event.

Please correct me if I am understating the problem.

Comment 15

[Todd]

Every user I install this on is annoyed by this missing functionality.
Any effort to reduce the resulting whining I have to listen to will be
greatly appreciated!

Comment 16

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 203638 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

We should disable the context-menuitem for Sunbird.

The relevant code in http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/calendar/sunbird/base/content/calendar.xul#146 can just be commented out for now.

This should also block 0.3a2, since it's very low-risk/high gain, since we should not advertise a functionality that we do not have at the moment.

Patch coming in a few hours.

Comment 18

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Attachment: Patch v1 - Disable mail-specific menuitems in Sunbird

Comment 19

[Joey Minta]

Comment on attachment 219208 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v1 - Disable mail-specific menuitems in Sunbird

Looks ok, but it's not clear to me why this is blocking 0.3a2. r=jminta, approval for 0.3a2 pending...

Comment 20

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

(In reply to comment #19)
> Looks ok, but it's not clear to me why this is blocking 0.3a2. r=jminta,
> approval for 0.3a2 pending...

As I said in comment 17, the patch

- is very low-risk
- will definitely save us future bug duplicates

And we should not advertise a functionality that we do not have at the moment.

Comment 21

[Joey Minta]

Neither mvl nor I had strong feelings about this, so i'm yielding to sipaq's judgment.  Patch checked in.  Removing blocker, but leaving bug open for more work.

Comment 22

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

IMO this is fixed.

Comment 23

[patrice Arnal]

Sorry to say the contrary : NO MAIL sent from sunbird 3.0 either on Linux (Debian Sarge)nor Windows XP
Did not find any way to configure the way mails are sent.( sendmail or default messaging programm) 

Comment 24

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Clarifying the summary...

Comment 25

[Sven Giermann]

Attachment: Modified CalendarMail for Lightning only.

Why doesn't anyone re-implement mail functions?

I recently added the attached re-written CalendarMail.js into my lightning and it works. Well I have to mention, that this could be poor programming style and early pre-release... - but it works for me.

I deleted all functions for checking mail existance, since I only use Lightning in Thunderbird.

Comment 26

[cmtalbert]

(In reply to comment #25)
> Created an attachment (id=256608) [details]
> Modified CalendarMail for Lightning only.
> 
> 
> Why doesn't anyone re-implement mail functions?
> 
> I recently added the attached re-written CalendarMail.js into my lightning and
> it works. Well I have to mention, that this could be poor programming style and
> early pre-release... - but it works for me.
> 
> I deleted all functions for checking mail existance, since I only use Lightning
> in Thunderbird.
> 
That's a decent stop-gap solution.  But we are working on something that will actually implement iTIP based scheduling so you don't have another half-finished solution (which is what calendarMail.js was).

See Bug 334685 for details

Comment 27

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

VERIFIED with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070406 Calendar/0.5pre.