278745 - When using mailto: links with multiple addresses, a stray quote is added to first address

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258653

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Andy Shellam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When using a mailto: link that contains multiple addresses separated by a
semi-colon (;), Thunderbird adds a stray quote (") just before the first at (@)
symbol.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save the following line into a file called "index.html" (eg on your desktop):
<a href="mailto:[e-mail]; [e-mail]">Click here to mail me</a>
2. Make sure Thunderbird is your default email client, and open the index.html
file in your browser
3. Click the "...mail me..." link.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird loads a "Compose" window.  The following is inserted into the "To:"
field:

user1"@mail.com; [e-mail]

Notice the stray quote at the first address.  It's only ever the first address.

Expected Results:  
The following SHOULD be displayed in the To: field:

[e-mail]; [e-mail]

Using default Thunderbird theme, have tried no other themes.  Not a major
problem, but I use Time & Chaos, which allows you to email multiple contacts
with one click, and it's annoying to have to take the quote out, otherwise mail
is bounced as "invalid characters in address."

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The "correct" form is:
  mailto:[e-mail]?to=[e-mail]
Or else commas as separators.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258653 ***

Comment 2

[Andy Shellam]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The "correct" form is:
>   mailto:[e-mail]?to=[e-mail]
> Or else commas as separators.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258653 ***

See the duplicated bug for my full comments, but how T&C creates links is way
beyond my control, and if Microsoft outlook(express) can handle it, why can't
Thunderbird?

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> See the duplicated bug for my full comments, but how T&C creates links is way
> beyond my control, and if Microsoft outlook(express) can handle it, why can't
> Thunderbird?

Nobody is denying it's a bug.  However, note that Mozilla & TB will not and 
should not do everything Microsoft does just because Microsoft does it.

Comment 4

[Andy Shellam]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > See the duplicated bug for my full comments, but how T&C creates links is way
> > beyond my control, and if Microsoft outlook(express) can handle it, why can't
> > Thunderbird?
> 
> Nobody is denying it's a bug.  However, note that Mozilla & TB will not and 
> should not do everything Microsoft does just because Microsoft does it.

I agree you shouldn't do it to follow M$, but you should to support the majority
of today's Internet users, and one of today's standards (whether legal or not)
is to use both ; (semi-colons) and , (commas) to separate e-mail addresses.

Also, this bug was marked as "Resolved".