277602 - Composing with mailto: link opens profile manager

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Celso Pinto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

With Thunderbird running, executing the handler for mailto: links, for example:
thunderbird -compose 'mailto:[e-mail]' will display the profile
manager instead of the compose window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Execute Thunderbird
2. In a console terminal execute thunderbird -compose 'mailto:[e-mail]'


Actual Results:  
Profile manager pops up instead of compose window

Expected Results:  
Compose window should have been displayed

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Do you have multiple profiles defined?  If you just start TB on its own with no 
command lines arguments, do you still get the profile manager?

In that case, either pick a profile that you want to use for the default and 
select the "Don't ask at startup" option on the profile manager; or, add a 
profile specification to the command line:
  tb.exe -p <profilename> -compose <url>

If that solves your problem, please mark this bug:  Resolved | WorksForMe

Comment 2

[Celso Pinto]

I only have one (default) profile. This popup only shows when Thunderbird is
already running and I click on a mailto: link on a browser (Firefox if it matters).

I tried executing with the -p argument but the command fails with:
run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute /opt/mozilla-thunderbird/thunderbird-bin.pure.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Sorry, I didn't notice you were using Linux.  See this:
  http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

If that fixes things for you, please mark this bug:  Resolved|Invalid

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter is MIA
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