693944 - All mail headers except To (e.g. In-Reply-To) are not passed from mailto: links (linux)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Federico]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928224103




Expected results:

This is probably a duplicate of bug 260482 but I can't reopen it, see bug bug 260482 comment 25:

> I've verified that it's not a problem in the browser or mailman, because it
> works with Thunderbird on Windows, but fields are not passed on Ubuntu.
> Currently I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23)
> Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/3.1.15.
> 
> By the way, as a workaround I'm using custom headers added by hand, but it's
> not very handy. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Custom_headers

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

So your issue is via the command line right ?

Comment 2

[Federico]

Yes; I've verified it in the command line and that's also the command that the OS uses when you click a mailto link in a browser.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Rolf, can you test this?


from bug 260482 comment 26

$ thunderbird mailto:[e-mail]?In-Reply-To=<[e-mail]>&Subject=Re:%20Re:
bash: [e-mail]: File o directory non esistente

(file or directory not found)

$ thunderbird "mailto:[e-mail]?In-Reply-To=<[e-mail]>&Subject=Re:%20Re:"

WORKS

Comment 4

[Rolf Leggewie]

no need to test, the first command line is simply syntactically wrong.  The < and > are not escaped and thus function as redirections in bash.  The command works as intended when properly escaped by "" in the second example.

disection:

$ thunderbird mailto:[e-mail]?In-Reply-To=<[e-mail]>&Subject=Re:%20Re:

translates to
"pass the file [e-mail] into the command-line 'thunderbird mailto:[e-mail]?In-Reply-To=' and redirect the output as well as any errors to the file 'Subject=Re:%20Re:'"

That's obviously not the intention.  Bash correctly responds with the error of file [e-mail] being inexistent.  This is a case of PEBKAC.

Comment 5

[Rolf Leggewie]

Closing as invalid.

Comment 6

[Rolf Leggewie]

(In reply to Federico from comment #2)
> Yes; I've verified it in the command line and that's also the command that
> the OS uses when you click a mailto link in a browser.

The bug is then in the OS if anything, that it needs to escape the command properly.

Comment 7

[Rolf Leggewie]

FWIW, I tested the original problem with https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/09/msg00050.html and it worked fine for me in Ubuntu Trusty.