311185 - thuderbird.exe -compose "to:[e-mail]" does not pass email address to composer ...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236774

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Ziga Turk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5 beta 1

In Thunderbird/Firefox combo I have been using NEVER passed email addresses
in mailto links to email composer. It also never passed the URL form Firefox's
"send page" menu. I trid a lot then tested the beast with the command line
from DOS:

thunderbird.exe -compose "to:[e-mail]" did not work
thunderbird.exe -compose "mailto:[e-mail]" did not work
thunderbird.exe -compose "[e-mail]" did not work

... also without the quotes it did not work. Yes, it did correctly
open up the mail compose windows, but DID NOT fill in the email address.

Another bug I noticed with Thunderbird 1.0.7 and before:

If one switches on and off the Thunderbird as the deafult mail handler
it messes up the registry so that the URL:mailto "file type" could not be edited
any more.  
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. execute the command line
2. or ... click on a mailto link
3. or ... send link in firefoc

Actual Results:  
Compose window opens, not content included.

Expected Results:  
Pass the email address into the to: field or link into the body of the message.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236774 ***