395945 - The Link function does not work when composing email. Active link is not created.

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Composition, defect)

Description

[Dale Ogle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12

I wanted to send an active link out in a email.  The create a link function did NOT work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.compose email
2.link function
3.compleate process to make active link
Actual Results:  
The link is NOT created.  When a person clicks on the link, it does not take them to the link.  They get a screen that says "not found"

Expected Results:  
The person recieving the email who clicks on the link should have been taken to the site I spesified when I set up the link.

Comment 1

[lenochod]

I opened site
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&field-1-0-0=bug_severity&field-1-1-0=bug_status&field-1-2-0=product&field0-0-0=days_elapsed&negate0=1&product=Mozilla%20Application%20Suite&query_format=advanced&type-1-0-0=anyexact&type-1-1-0=anyexact&type-1-2-0=anyexact&type0-0-0=lessthan&value-1-0-0=blocker%2Ccritical%2Cmajor%2Cnormal%2Cminor%2Ctrivial&value-1-1-0=UNCONFIRMED&value-1-2-0=Mozilla%20Application%20Suite&value0-0-0=180&order=bugs.bug_id&query_based_on=SeaMonkey1.1_bugs#
click right button mouses - Send Page - Send in Plain Text Only
Message is Send 
It is in message arriver first link with space - not work fine.
Second link is work fine.

Whend message is send in HTML format, it is fine.

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Dale, lenochod,

Which product/version are you using ?

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Comment 3

[lenochod]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Dale, lenochod,
> 
> Which product/version are you using ?
> 
> Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008051102 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9

Comment 4

[Mac DeBusk]

I have a problem that I think might be related, or perhaps better information to reproduce this issue. When linking to a local file the link simply doesn't work. Example:

At my office we have a server with a shared disk drive. Everybody has access to the same "S" drive.

I frequently send messages to my coworkers with links to files contained on the "S" drive using the following procedure...
 * Click "Write" button
 * Type text in compose windows
 * Select text
 * Press CTRL + L to open link properties window
 * Click Choose File and find the file on the "S" drive
 * UNcheck the "attach source of link" box
 * Send the email (as html)
 
The resulting message contains the text underlined in blue, and when checked the properties contain the correct file location information, but when clicked the email client (Thunderbird as well as Outlook) simply ignores the link. I believe there may be a problem with the way the link is formatted.

The link location ends up looking something like "file:///S:/Directory/Directory/Name.jpg" and, at the destination computer, can be selected, copied, entered into an explorer window, and will open the desired file.

Interesting behavior: When hovering over the link the mouse cursor turns into a finger and the status bar displays the location, but a left click yields no results. Right click -> Save location works.

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Moving to MailNews::Composition.

If anyone sees this problem on other than Windows, please change Platform to All.

SeaMonkey 1.1 is now dead, 2.0a1pre was a very early version of 2.0. Please recheck with 2.0.14 or later, and if possible with 2.1 or later.

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Comment 4 is duplicate of Bug 135830, but from comment 0 or summary, it is not clear what this bug is about.