290745 - "mozilla -mail mailto:[e-mail]" does not open email composer window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 220306

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[poiuz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

The commandline "mozilla -mail mailto:[e-mail]" does not open an email
composer window as described on http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.type mozilla -mail [e-mail] in mozilla application path
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla Mail opens

Expected Results:  
Mozilla Mail composer window opens

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No, it doesn't.  (Note that the command line in "steps to reproduce" is missing 
the "mailto:" scheme prefix, but you indicate it correctly earlier in the 
report.)  That used to work in Moz 1.4, but not since 1.5.  The workaround 
(thru 1.7) has been to use   -browser   instead.

This has changed as of Moz 1.8 -- now the   -compose   switch needs to be used 
instead:  Bug 236774.  However, when 1.8 installs itself, it does not set up the 
command line for mailto handling to include the  -compose  switch; this problem 
was bug 202497.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220306 ***