646031 - Add new RSS feed to thunderbird from the command line

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Sean Dague]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3.1.8

It is documented that you can add a new RSS feed to thunderbird from the command line with the following syntax:

 /usr/bin/thunderbird -mail feed:$url

However this hasn't worked on any of the 3.x builds I've tried.  Is this feature still available, and if not can some way to do this be put back in to the source?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[alta88]

thunderbird.exe feed:$url works for me in Tb10 and likely earlier.  if that doesn't work in 3.1, there's one word: upgrade.

if indeed the doc is wrong, where?

Comment 2

[Sean Dague]

I'm on TB 10 now, and this still doesn't do anything under Linux. Can you provide an example $url that this works for, and what you see happen when you run that command from the command line.

Comment 3

[alta88]

C:\Programs\Mozilla\Thunderbird>thunderbird.exe feed:http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/format:rss?sort=featured

will subscribe the feed to an open Tb, create a folder (if not subscribed in the first feed account found), download feeds, and select the folder.

C:\Programs\Mozilla\Thunderbird>thunderbird.exe -no-remote -P test feed:http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/format:rss?sort=featured

will start (must be closed, if a non-remote profile is open and you wish to open another profile) Tb with the profile, and repeat above.

now, this is win7.  i very vaguely recall -no-remote being implemented for some specific linux arg passing issues long ago, so that may or may not be a difference.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

FWIW, works fine on linux for me. Tested in tb10.

Comment 5

[Sean Dague]

After deleting my entire RSS tree (about 100 feed), and reimporting them, this now works. It didn't work at all previously. But at least it's working now.