972021 - Desktop client needs to send "call-me" URLs via email for signed in users

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Hello (Loop) :: Client, defect, P3)

Comment 1

[Romain Testard [:RT]]

This leverages mailto which uses the default e-mail client (hard client such as Thundebird or webclients such as GMail or Yahoo are supported as per about:preferences in the "applications" section).

Example:
mailto:?subject=Loop invitation to chat&body=Please click that link to call me back [LINK].

Comment 2

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

I don't believe this is needed for the first release of FxA & contacts.

Comment 3

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

RT -- Does this go with Bug 1000769?  Do we need this to complete the basic user story calling a non-FxA contact?

(Making this [first release needed?] like bug 1000769 until this gets clarified.)

Comment 4

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Making this P1 if it goes with bug 1000769

Comment 5

[Romain Testard [:RT]]

(In reply to Maire Reavy [:mreavy] (Plz needinfo me) from comment #3)
> RT -- Does this go with Bug 1000769?  Do we need this to complete the basic
> user story calling a non-FxA contact?
> 
> (Making this [first release needed?] like bug 1000769 until this gets
> clarified.)

This is the same as the account-less feature on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000772
This bug is only here to confirm that the account-less feature allowing to share a call-back URL by e-mail is still available when signed-in as per the "Share" button shown on https://people.mozilla.org/~dhenein/labs/loop-mvp-spec/#precall-signedin

Comment 6

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

(In reply to Romain Testard [:RT - on PTO back on August 14th] from comment #1)
> This leverages mailto which uses the default e-mail client (hard client such
> as Thundebird or webclients such as GMail or Yahoo are supported as per
> about:preferences in the "applications" section).
> 
> Example:
> mailto:?subject=Loop invitation to chat&body=Please click that link to call
> me back [LINK].

mailto might be okay for guest users but IME desktop email clients are not as popular nowadays and many webmail sites don't integrate with our mailto dialog so many users will be unable to successfully use this feature. For logged-in users, I think we should send the email from the server side to avoid this problem. Emails would be associated with accounts so we can handle spamming.

Of course, I would also like to improve Firefox's mailto handling but some of that requires webmail sites to use the proper API to register their URL. We could probably include some more popular services by default though.

Comment 7

[:shell escalante]

ABR having conversation with darrin regarding the URL differences between logged-in versus not logged-in based on association with browser or FxA user account.

Comment 8

[:shell escalante]

MattN is addressing this with a bug to populate the link box with the the signed in URL (which varies from a non-signed in URL).  There isn't a code change on the copy or email/share buttons though.  they will work the same for signed-in or non-signed in users.  closing as the code change doesn't need to happen here.