241381 - e-mail client does not open when clicking a mailto: link - FAQ fix for this is bugged.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mark crosby]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Related to bug 235314 and the resulting FAQ at
http://texturizer.net/firefox/faq.html#email.

Executing the FAQ fix above, does now open the compose window when clicking a
Mailto: link but does *not* transfer the mailto: e-mail address from the link
into the Mzilla compose "To:" field.  I suspect the %1 at the end of the (None)
URL:MailTo Protocol setting is supposed to do this but the TO: field is left blank.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open firefox browser (after applying FAQ URL:Mailto protocol fix)
2. go to any web page with a mailto: link and click the link.
3. note that mozilla compose window opens with an empty TO: field

Actual Results:  
mozilla compose window opens with ampty TO: field

Expected Results:  
the TO: field should have the e-mail address transferred to it from the
originally clicked mailto: link.

Comment 1

[David A. Cobb]

Le'see, just a quick scan shows Bug#202497, Bug#220306, Bug#220753, Bug#241381,
Bug#242255 as open mailto bugs.
The following combinations are busted on MSwindows-XP:
F-Fox 2004-04-25-09-trunk T-Bird 2004-04-25-00-trunk;
F-Fox 2004-05-02-09-trunk T-Bird 2004-05-02-00-trunk.

On XP this was fixed once, but I can't seem to find that bug#.  Anyway, it's
baaaaack!  Obviously, this stuff if fragile magic.

PS, before anyone tells me to, YES the published registry patch is applied - and
in fact I found another likely registry key, but it didn't work.

Comment 2

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040802
Firefox/0.9.1+

WFM, and more importantly this is not a Firefox bug.  It's a bug in whatever
e-mail program being used, because that e-mail program did not set the registry
entries correctly.  Thunderbird does it correctly (for me at least) and bug
202497 covers Mozilla Suite.  Anything else is not something mozilla.org can fix.

Comment 3

[David A. Cobb]

(In reply to comment #2)

> WFM, and more importantly this is not a Firefox bug.  It's a bug in whatever
> e-mail program being used, because that e-mail program did not set the registry
> entries correctly.  Thunderbird does it correctly (for me at least) and bug
> 202497 covers Mozilla Suite.  Anything else is not something mozilla.org can fix.

Well, from comment#1 you can see that the non-cooperating mail program (at least
for me) was Thunderbird.  You are correct that, at the present moment, this WFM,
however it was valid and it has a nasty tendency to recur.  It should probably
be re-targeted to THUNDERBIRD INSTALLER.

Comment 4

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified