266261 - File links within a message should be openable.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135830

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Paul Hardacre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: version 0.8 (20041020)

When you receive an email containing a link to a file on a network path/drive
this link does nothing when you click it. For example \\server\public\file.txt
will create a link with href file://\\server\public\file.txt which when clicked
does nothing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive an email containing a link to a UNC or local file (e.g.
\\server\public\file.txt)
2. Click link


Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
File is opened with OS default app or windows dialog opens asking you how you
wish to open the file. If it's a directory then explorer is launched displaying
the contents of the directory.

It is possible this was intentional, in which case we should not display these
as clickable links.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> It is possible this was intentional, in which case we should not display these
> as clickable links.

It is intentional.  The dupe is about making the restriction not so rigid.
Agreed, file: links should not be shown clickable if they're not clickable -- 
that's bug 241573.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135830 ***