915134 - OtherRandomHeaders appearing in to: field when using MailServices.compose.OpenComposeWindowWithParams

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[maxjmaass]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.65 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Trying to set some mail headers before opening a new message window.

Code:
let fields = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/messengercompose/composefields;1"]
                       .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIMsgCompFields);
let params = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/messengercompose/composeparams;1"]
                       .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIMsgComposeParams);
[...]
fields.otherRandomHeaders += "a-b: "+ "test" +"\r\n"; // was something different, changed for testing
params.type = Components.interfaces.nsIMsgCompType.New;
params.format = Components.interfaces.nsIMsgCompFormat.PlainText;
params.composeFields = fields;
// Spawn message window
MailServices.compose.OpenComposeWindowWithParams(null, params);


Actual results:

The Mail should have been opened with the "a-b"-Header set to "test" (was: "x-enigmail-draft-status": Components.interfaces.nsIEnigmail.SEND_ENCRYPTED, but did not work with that either).


Expected results:

In the "to"-Field, another entry appeared with the content "a-b: test", the header was not set.

According to the Enigmail-Devs, this is a bug in Thunderbird (See http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg00539.html for the relevant mail from the ML). Please let me know if you need any more code from my implementation, I hope I got all the relevant stuff, but as the actual implementation contained a lot more stuff, I stripped a lot of lines.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

So old, I wonder whether this is still valid.