331193 - clicking mailto link with parameters opens compose window with empty fields.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331192

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Mybeau31]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: version 1.5 (20051201)

Bug has been already signalled in previous versions and was supposed to be resolved but is still acting up.
Details: clicking a link example below
mailto:[e-mail]?subject=test&body=this is a test of mailto
opens a TB compose window with empty fields
Same result by typing in start>execute : thunderbird -compose "mailto:[e-mail]?subject=test&body=this is a test of mailto"



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.execute > thunderbird -compose "mailto:[e-mail]?subject=test&body=this is a test of mailto"
2.or 
3.click a mailto link with parameters: dest. adress[,subject,body]

Actual Results:  
TB  opens a compose window with empty fields

Expected Results:  
TB should open a compose window with pre-filled fields

**Configuration 
*windows 2000 pro SP4 (thoroughly updated) 
*TB version 1.5 (20051201) FRENCH
*Thunderbird IS my DEFAULT MAILER 
*user.js shows : 
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);
*pref.js shows : user_pref("network. protocol-handler. expose-all", true);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);
*I have the following plug-ins : talkback 1.5, header scroll 0.3, chromEdit O.1.1.1, DeleteJunk Context Menu 0.3.2
*I use "Azerty" theme 
*I use English, French, Spanish dictionnaries.

**Tests and verifications done  >> same behavior
*desinstalled plug_ins 
*desinstalled theme
*Tried with and without firewall and anti-virus
*TB as default mailer was checked in TB, in IExplorer, and in registry
*Changed default mailer to Outlook Express : mailto worked with OE, changed default mailer back to TB and re-checked everything.

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 331192 ***