Bug 265299 – =mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0* has problems with commandline attachments

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Glenn Sommer 2009-04-07 12:29:53 UTC]

Currently Thunderbird 2.0.0.X has known issues with attaching files from the
command-line.

I reported this issue upstream - and it's fixed in the latest Thunderbird
3.0b4.

Currently Thunderbird does not handle filesnames with special chars very
well... 
An example:
thunderbird --compose "attachment=file:///home/gsomer/my test file with odd
chars like æ ø å.txt"
This will result in Thunderbird opening the "write" window correctly... You can
even open the attachment by double-clicking on it.
But when sending the e-mail - thunderbird fails.

I've backported the patch from 3.0b4 to Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 - and successfully
patched my own Thunderbird.

I would suggest testing my patch - and applying it to the current Thunderbird
package!

With this patch the syntax is now:
attachment='file:///[URL ENCODED PATH]'
or
attachment='/complete path/to my/file'

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Glenn Sommer 2009-04-07 12:30:54 UTC]

Created attachment 187572 [details, diff]
Thunderbird attachment patch

This patch makes Thunderbird able to use special chars in filenames - when attaching using commandline.
It also makes thunderbird able to understand URL encoded filenames.

Note. the syntax should now be: attachment='file:///[URL ENCODED PATH]'
or attachment='/complete path/to/file'

[Comment 2 Glenn Sommer 2009-05-20 14:25:21 UTC]

Comment on attachment 187572 [details, diff]
Thunderbird attachment patch

File to patch: chrome:messenger.jar:content/messenger/messengercomposer/MsgComposeCommand.js

[Comment 3 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) 2009-10-20 15:17:34 UTC]

Upstream bug in URL

[Comment 4 Jory A. Pratt 2009-12-24 13:55:55 UTC]

Thunderbird-3 is in the tree, we are working to get it ready for stable, and should be there sooner then a revision bump for 2.x branch.