Closed Bug 270527 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

dragging a mailto: to Apple Mail doesn't work properly

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Drag & Drop, defect)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
Drag & Drop
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: jon, Assigned: mikepinkerton)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041116 Camino/0.8+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041116 Camino/0.8+

It would be nice to be able to simply drag a mailto: link to a new message
To:/CC:/BCC: field in Apple Mail and have it just work properly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Right now, it inserts it as the string 'mailto:address@blah.com' (obviously with
the right address in there)

Expected Results:  
I guess it shouldn't copy over the mailto: part in this case.
I'm not sure why dragging a mailto: link to a message field would be prefereable
to simply clicking on a link and letting the existing system work.  AFAIK other
browsers behave exactly like Camino and drag the entire contents of the href
into Mail's message field.
My usecase is this:

When I click a link it opens up a new mail message for each click.

Suppose I have multiple links that I want to include in that single new mail
message? What do I do then?

jon
Yep, that's a reasonable use case. Can't see an existing request for this so
confirming the bug.

I might look at this once I've finished cleaning up the context menu for mailto:
links under bug 166958.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
how can we control how mail.app interprets our drags?
please file a bug with apple. we can't change mail.app.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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