Bug 13435

Summary: xdg-email - Thunderbird does not support email attachments
Product: Portland Reporter: Lei Zhang <thestig>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Fathi Boudra <fabo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: cr33dog, debfx-fdo, noel
Version: 1.0Keywords: patch
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 23105    
Attachments: proposed fix
to_thunderbird.diff
thunderbird_trailing_comma.diff

Description Lei Zhang 2007-11-28 14:47:00 UTC 
On http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/EmailConfig, it says Moziila Thunderbird does not support email attachments from xdg-email.

It turns out Thunderbird disabled attachments via a mailto: URL on purpose, because they believe it is not secure. [1]

I'm proposing the following workaround: (see attachment)

In open_kde() / open_gnome(), look up the email client kde/gnome is trying to run. If the client contains Thunderbird in its name, then call run_thunderbird(), which parses the mailto url, reformats it in a way that Thunderbird accepts, and then run Thunderbird.

open_xfce() does not need to do this because exo-open already does this. [2]

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99055#c6
[2] http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/libexo/trunk/exo-helper/helpers/exo-compose-mail-0.3
Comment 1 Lei Zhang 2007-11-28 14:47:34 UTC 
Created attachment 12807 [details] [review]
proposed fix
Comment 2 Noèl Köthe 2009-07-13 01:37:44 UTC 
will the proposed fix from Comment #1 be integrated?
Comment 3 Nicolas Lécureuil 2009-08-03 14:17:48 UTC 
fabo, can you review this patch please ?
Comment 4 Chris 2009-10-03 16:10:53 UTC 
Can confirm bug, and also that the patch works.
Comment 6 Pablo Castellano (pablog) 2010-02-28 05:50:47 UTC 
Created attachment 33640 [details] [review]
to_thunderbird.diff

Hi Fathi.
It looks like you committed the patch with an error and the "TO:" field isn't working.

Here's a patch to fix it.
Comment 7 Pablo Castellano (pablog) 2010-02-28 05:51:23 UTC 
"TO:" field is not working.
Patch attached
Comment 8 Fathi Boudra 2010-02-28 06:02:06 UTC 
oups, sorry. fixed.
Comment 9 Oxmosys 2010-02-28 09:40:32 UTC 
Unfortunately, this fix does not work anymore with thunderbird 3, because of two regressions in the way thunderbird 3 handle -compose. I've reported the issue in thunderbird bugzilla and all details about this problem can be found here :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549058

I guess that this has to be fixed in thunderbird and not xdg-utils, but I might be wrong.
Comment 10 Robert Ancell 2010-03-11 21:28:03 UTC 
Strips the trailing comma as required by Thunderbird 3:
ATTACH=$(echo "$MAILTO" | sed 's/^attach=/\n\nfile:\/\//g' | awk '/^file:/ { printf "%s,",$0 }')
ATTACH=$(echo "$ATTACH" | sed 's/,$//')
Comment 11 Pablo Castellano (pablog) 2010-04-30 04:38:33 UTC 
Created attachment 35340 [details] [review]
thunderbird_trailing_comma.diff

Patch tested and working following Robert's last comment.
Comment 12 Pablo Castellano (pablog) 2010-07-18 14:10:46 UTC 
a friendly ping, can we finally patch&close this bug?
Comment 13 Fathi Boudra 2010-09-24 10:48:30 UTC 
fixed in CVS
Comment 14 Rich Wales 2010-11-27 15:36:31 UTC 
I added the above patch to the /usr/bin/xdg-email on my Ubuntu Maverick system, but it doesn't seem to help.  I still get an error when I try to e-mail photos from Picasa 2.7 to Thunderbird 3.1.6.  Any suggestions are welcome regarding things I can do to help track down the problem.

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