352587 - [osx only] Open saved .eml file with association opens blank compose window not message.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Nic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.5 (20060719)

When I try to open a message that has been saved to my desktop from thunderbird by double clicking on it the Thunderbird application activated and a blank compose window appears instead of the expected email message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a message and save as file
2. Double click the saved file, if prompted for the application to open the file with choose thunderbird

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird opens with blank compose window not message.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird opens mail message as when Open saved message menu item is selcted.

Comment 1

[Kent James (:rkent)]

I cannot reproduce this by simply saving and then opening a .eml file, as suggested. However, the behaviour is very close to that of bug 351064 which I can reproduce. In both cases, I am using TB version 2 alpha 1 (20060724)on W2K.

Comment 2

[Nic]

I haven't tested the behaviour on windows, I experience this on Mac OS X 10.4 running the relese version of Thunderbird 1.5.  I have also tested this bug and reproduced the behaviour on Thunderbird 2 again on Mac OS X10.4.

Could this be something specific to the OS build of Thunderbird ?

Nic

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

yes, I see this too - for me, this happened when Thunderbird was already running. I haven't tried it when TB wasn't running. Stepping through the mac-specific start code, we're not actually calling Run() on the nsICommandLine object (or something like that) so the registered mailnews command line handler never gets invoked. Instead we're falling into code that tries to load browser.chromeURL, i.e., http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/xre/nsCommandLineServiceMac.cpp#376

Comment 4

[Leonidas Jones]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en)
> AppleWebKit/418.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
> Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.5 (20060719)
> 
> When I try to open a message that has been saved to my desktop from thunderbird
> by double clicking on it the Thunderbird application activated and a blank
> compose window appears instead of the expected email message.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Select a message and save as file
> 2. Double click the saved file, if prompted for the application to open the
> file with choose thunderbird
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Thunderbird opens with blank compose window not message.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Thunderbird opens mail message as when Open saved message menu item is selcted.
> 

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en)
> AppleWebKit/418.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
> Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.5 (20060719)
> 
> When I try to open a message that has been saved to my desktop from thunderbird
> by double clicking on it the Thunderbird application activated and a blank
> compose window appears instead of the expected email message.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Select a message and save as file
> 2. Double click the saved file, if prompted for the application to open the
> file with choose thunderbird
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Thunderbird opens with blank compose window not message.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Thunderbird opens mail message as when Open saved message menu item is selcted.
> 

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still see this in version 3?
related to bug 495235?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Matt, can you test and reproduce this?

Comment 8

[matthew arnison]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #7)
> Matt, can you test and reproduce this?

Works for me with version 31.4.0 of Thunderbird & Mac OS X 10.9.5.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for the update