283022 - Internal error 509 when trying to invoke TB using mozilla-xremote-client

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Marek Schimara]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050220 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Thunderbird trunk build version 0.6+ (20050212)

I can't send the e-mail from Firefox (by clicking on mailto: links), and from
the command line (see below). The same works with TB 0.8 (build 2004/12/09).

[marek@marek thunderbird]$ ./mozilla-xremote-client -a thunderbird "ping()"
[marek@marek thunderbird]$
[marek@marek thunderbird]$ ./thunderbird -v
(null) Thunderbird 0.6+, Copyright (c) 2005 mozilla.org
[marek@marek thunderbird]$
[marek@marek thunderbird]$ uname -a
Linux marek 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl #1 Wed Apr 21 20:36:05 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux
[marek@marek thunderbird]$
[marek@marek thunderbird]$ ./mozilla-xremote-client -a thunderbird
"mailto([e-mail])"
./mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error
[marek@marek thunderbird]$
[marek@marek thunderbird]$ ./mozilla-xremote-client -a Thunderbird
"mailto([e-mail])"
./mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to find a running server.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install TB build 2005/02/12
2. Run TB
3. Try to open the compose window using mozilla-xremote-client

Actual Results:  
./mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error

Expected Results:  
Open the compose window. This breaks the integration with other apps.

Comment 1

[Marek Schimara]

Hi,

searching around I found another way how to workaround this:
./mozilla-xremote-client -a thunderbird
'xfeDoCommand(composeMessage,mailto:[e-mail]?subject=I can send it now)'

It would be nice if the way of doing this didn't change with different TB
releases...

Comment 2

[Peter Janes]

Confirmed with Thunderbird 1.0.1 release and Firefox 1.0.1.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still see this?

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Sort of, i get the "Error: Failed to find a running server."

But then again, i think this is invalid. There are many ways to call tb from the command line - this one i doubt is supported

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #4)

...
But then again, i think this is invalid. There are many ways to call tb from
the command line - this one i doubt is supported

But if someone disagrees, please reopen