[Portland-bugs] [Bug 13435] New: xdg-email - Thunderbird does not support email attachments

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13435

           Summary: xdg-email - Thunderbird does not support email
                    attachments
           Product: Portland
           Version: 1.0
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: thestig at google.com


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


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