478489 - Thunderbird Should Support the xdg-email Spec.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 99055

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020911 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.19 (20090105)

Using gnome-do to send an email with an attachment doesn't work. I filed a bug for gnome-do, and they informed me I should file it here since it's the fault of Thunderbird, not gnome-do. According to the bug triager over there, the reason gnome-do does not work is because xdg-email is not supported properly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Summon gnome-do with the Thunderbird plug-in enabled
2. Type the name of a contact, and select the person
3. Press tab
4. Select email, and press tab
5. Type the name of a document to send the person, and press enter
6. Note that the email is created, but lacks the attachment
Actual Results:  
Email is created, but lacks the attachment.

Expected Results:  
Should have the attachment.

I'm currently running gnome-do version 0.8.0 in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.

The link for the gnome-do bug is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/326389

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Michael could you try to do the same thing with a recent 3.0 build that you can find at http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/downloads.php and tell us if it works better wit the 3.0 builds ?

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

It won't, since we haven't changed anything there, and we have extensive comments in the code to make sure we don't.

xdg-email just does "thunderbird mailto:..." and since 2001 nobody's come up with a convincing spec (or any spec, really) for how to safely allow websites to have <a href="mailto:[e-mail]?attachment=/etc/whatever"> without any risk of people accidentally actually sending /etc/whatever without noticing. Sucks, it'd be nice if xdg-email would figure out some way of letting you use |thunderbird -compose "attach=/etc/whatever"| when you actually want to attach something, and only use mailto when it's coming from a less-trusted source.