831280 - Moz Activity - new mail - can't attach images

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::E-Mail, defect)

Description

[Evyatar 'Tron' Amitay (everything.me)]

The 'new' moz activity (mail) doesn't allow sending attachments.

It seems like there are two activities- share (which is for sharing images) and new (which is for sending new emails)- but you can't combine their data, so you can create a new mail with attachments.

ideally it would look like this:
MozActivity({
 'name': 'new',
 'data': {
  'type': 'mail',
  'URI': mailURL,
  'blobs/filenames': [...]
 }
})


affects Notes app
https://marketplace.firefox.com/reviewers/apps/review/notes

Comment 1

[Gene Lian (I already quit Mozilla)]

This bug seems reported long time ago. Still a problem? If my recall is right, bug 782766 should already support passing blob for activities.

Comment 2

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

The bug is that the only way to get an attachment onto an email that is being composed is via the 'share' activity and we our filter on type is "image/*" which limits what can be attached.

I think we were playing it safe on that constraint.  Videos have a good chance of bouncing depending on e-mail size limits, and we wouldn't understand how to share things that aren't blobs if we do that.  I guess I can't find a way to share a URL right now?

Comment 4

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

It seems our sharing restrictions have been lifted significantly, and you can also use a share activity to create an email with an attachment now. I can't think of anything further actionable here, so I think we should close this. Please re-open or file a new bug if there is still some unexpected behavior.