Bug 197135
| Summary: | Thunderbird mail command results in improper To field. | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ryan Powers <rpowers> | ||||
| Component: | control-center | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 6 | CC: | robatino, wtogami | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-09-13 04:22:55 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 150224, 171491 | ||||||
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Description
Ryan Powers
2006-06-28 18:57:38 UTC
I noticed this after installing FC5 but didn't know which component to report it under. The correct component is definitely NOT thunderbird, since it's in no way responsible for how it's invoked. In Preferred Applications, I had to change the Mail Reader to Custom, since using Thunderbird didn't allow me to edit the Command, then I entered the command "thunderbird %s", since the corresponding default commands for Evolution and Mutt are "evolution %s" and "mutt %s", resp. Thunderbird is unique in having "mailto:" in its default command. Does this mean that the other default commands should also be changed? *** Bug 199638 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Could the version be updated to fc6tst2? Since it doesn't work in fedora core 6 test 2 with control-center-2.15.92-5.fc6. I confirm that this problem exists in both FC5 and FC6T2. The System > Preferences > More Preferences > Preferred Applications > Mail Reader setting for the Thunderbird Mail choice sets the command to "thunderbird mailto:%s" where it should be "thunderbird %s", the same as the other choices for evolution and kmail. To get a mailto: link in a web page to set the address in thunderbird correctly, one has to use the Custom setting and remove the mailto: part of the command. (In reply to comment #3) > Could the version be updated to fc6tst2? Since it doesn't work in fedora core 6 > test 2 with control-center-2.15.92-5.fc6. I've updated the version to fc6test2 at your request. Created attachment 136050 [details]
Patch corrects improper Thunderbird URL handling string
Comment on attachment 136050 [details]
Patch corrects improper Thunderbird URL handling string
I did some poking around in the source for this package. The vanilla config
contains the correct string, but is changed to the incorrect string by the
Fedora patch control-center-2.13.90-fedora-apps.patch
. This patch reverts the Thunderbird string to the correct one.
I forgot to add, if someone with an FC6T2 environment could test this patch to make sure it applies properly to a fully prepared source tree, I'd appreciate it. I'm still using FC5, so I wasn't able to perform an rpmbuild -bp. There will be existing user profiles with gconf using the wrong command, thus thunderbird's URL handler launching script should be corrected to recognize both the old and new syntax. The thunderbird command is fixed in 2.16.0-3. If you want to make thunderbird understand mailto:wtogami, please open a thunderbird bug. |