549734 - Mail Command Line Options not accepting URLs

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Neville Hillyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2

This command line example:

$ /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -mail mailto:[e-mail]?subject=hi

taken from:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options#-mail_mailto_URL

results in:

Unrecognized URL: mailto:[e-mail]?subject=hi

Whilst I had doubts about mailbox://nobody@"Local Folders"/Inbox clashing with session.json I was surprised that I could not get any URLs to function as described.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Paste above in OS-X terminal.
2. Hit 'return'.
3. Obtain above warning.
Actual Results:  
Above

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Confirming - was unable to find a dup. Neville is this a regression from 2.x ?

Standard8 is the wiki page up to date ?

Comment 2

[Nomis101]

I also can confirm this, but interestingly it works for me if I only do:
$ /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin mailto:[e-mail]?subject=hi

Thunderbird/3.2a1pre

Comment 3

[Neville Hillyer]

I do not have a 2.x mounted so I would prefer not to spend time on it. However, I am prepared to mount it if the information is critical.

Thanks for the tip about omitting '-mail'. Whilst this did not work for me it did encouraged me to play further.

I can get it working as long as I omit '-mail' and include a profile path or profile name.

For example both of the following work for me:

<pre>
/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -P "default" mailto:[e-mail]?subject=hi

/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -profile "/Users/neville/Thunderbird" mailto:[e-mail]?subject=hi
</pre>

Please note that my profile is called 'default' and it resides at a non-standard location in a directory called 'Thunderbird' in my home directory - easier to backup - I also do this with browsers.

I am not sure of the history of '-mail' but it looks as though either the page requires editing or software changes  are needede.

It is not clear to me if my non-standard profile location is the sole cause of the necessity of explicitly specifying it. If it is this should be noted on the web page. The listing of my file at: /Users/neville/Library/Thunderbird is below:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=../../Thunderbird

Comment 4

[Neville Hillyer]

Clearly my 'pre' tags don't work here - please ignore them.

Each command above should be on a single line with a space between:
"default" and mailto
profile and "/Users

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

> I do not have a 2.x mounted so I would prefer not to spend time on it. However,
> I am prepared to mount it if the information is critical.

It is if we can also find when it started failing.

can someone hunt the regression window as explained at http://www.rumblingedge.com/2009/02/24/howto-find-regression-windows-through-manual-binary-search/ ? (In reply to comment #3)

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

setting the dependency as I think once 612023 will be resolved this one will too.

Comment 7

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Referring to the command in comment 0,

/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -mail mailto:[e-mail]?subject=hi

(In reply to comment #5)
> can someone hunt the regression window as explained at
> http://www.rumblingedge.com/2009/02/24/howto-find-regression-windows-through-manual-binary-search/
> ? (In reply to comment #3)

I'm on this. It goes way back but it's something like:

version 1.6a1 (20060101) - command works as expected.
version 3 alpha 1 (20070101) - command works as expected.
version 3.0a1pre (2008010112) - command does not work as expected (compose window does not pop up)

It took a long time but I *finally* managed to find a build that works as expected. Tested on 10.6.5.

Will continue to poke.

Comment 8

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

version 3 alpha 1 (20070210) - works as expected
version 3 alpha 1 (20070211) - does not work as expected

Regression window:

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2007-02-10+03%3A00%3A00&maxdate=2007-02-11+03%3A00%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Probably bug 355633 ?

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

does this still reproduce now that bug 612023 and others is resolvled?

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Adam does this reproduce for you (comment 0)?

Comment 11

[Adam Roach [:abr]]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #10)

Adam does this reproduce for you (comment 0)?

I don't get an error, but neither do I get a window to send an email. It would appear that my install completely ignores the "-mail" option.

Comment 12

[Neville Hillyer]

I am now using version 31.4.0 and still get exactly the same result as I originally posted.