351863 - thunderbird -remote mailto doesn't allow multiple addresses

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert K. Nelson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 SUSE/1.5.0.6-1.2 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird Version 1.505 (20060725)

Mozilla allows commands like:

mozilla -remote "mailto([e-mail],[e-mail])"
mozilla -remote "mailto(John Q. Public<[e-mail]>)"

however,

thunderbird -remote "mailto([e-mail],[e-mail])"

only sends to the first addressee, and

thunderbird -remote "mailto(John Q. Public<[e-mail]>)"

reports a parse error.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start an instance of thuinderbird under linux
2. Give the commands listed above
3.

Actual Results:  
for multiple urls specified, only the first is used for a To field
for full user names specified, a parse error occurs

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I can confirm thunderbird -remote "mailto([e-mail],[e-mail])" only uses the first address. SeaMonkey current trunk works ok. 

thunderbird -remote "mailto(John Q. Public<[e-mail]>)" works fine for me 

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/3.0a1 ID:2006090903, branch too

Comment 2

[Robert K. Nelson]

Well, I found a way to make these things work.

1. Multiple recipients in the -remote "mailto" argument.
Contrary to the documentation, a comma separated list doesn't work.  The following does:

thunderbird -remote 'mailto(<[e-mail]>?cc=<[e-mail]>&cc=<[e-mail]>&bcc=[e-mail])'

Note how weird this is - we need a question mark as a separator between the first two addresses and an ampersand between subsequent pairs.  I have no idea why this is required.

2. Specifying user names in the "mailto" list.
It seems that "mailto" argument parsing chokes on spaces.  If you just replace them with "%20", everything is fine - here's an example:

thunderbird -remote 'mailto(John%20Doe<[e-mail]>)'

At the very least, these things need to be documented somewhere accessible.  I can't find any up to date documentation on the -remote options anywhere.

Bob

Comment 3

[Thommie Rother]

no activity for a long time, should be closed

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

That's not a valid reason to close a bug.