469912 - mailto: fails to parse group (list) syntax.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 220147

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Mark Andrews]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081122 Firefox/2.0.0.18
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.18 (20081211)

Starting thunderbird with the following mailto url results in 3 to To: lines rather than one To: line with a list syntax of '"list-name":[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail];'

thunderbird mailto:%22list-name%22%3aaddress1%40isc%2eorg%2caddress2%40isc%2eorg%2caddress3%40isc%2eorg%3b

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.thunderbird mailto:%22list-name%22%3aaddress1%40isc%2eorg%2caddress2%40isc%2eorg%2caddress3%40isc%2eorg%3b
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Three To: entries with:
To: "list-name":[e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
to: [e-mail];

Expected Results:  
One To: entry with "list-name":[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail];

Comment 1

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Strictly speaking, according to RFC 2368, said URI is malformed, as the part before the query is a comma-separated list of /mailbox/ specs, not /address/ (the group, which is what you want, is not a mailbox but an address).

That said, the correct url (mailto:?to=...) should work, but it doesn't. This is endemic of something deeper in the compose mailto handling. I'd be surprised if there weren't a bug on this already, so dupeme. This is either a compose problem or a mime problem, but it's more likely to be compose, so I'll put it there in lieu of more information.

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!