Bug 659786
| Summary: | xdg-email fails to supply To address for Thunderbird | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Matthew Mosesohn <mmosesoh> |
| Component: | xdg-utils | Assignee: | Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | jhunt, msanders, pkovar, tpelka, tsmetana |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Previously, there was a typo found in the xdg-utils source code. As a consequence, Thunderbird, after passing in an email address, created a compose window without the "To:" address. With this update, the typo has been fixed so that the "To:" address is now passed in correctly.
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| Last Closed: | 2011-08-31 09:18:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Matthew Mosesohn
2010-12-03 16:51:35 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an exception in the current release, please ask your support representative. This upstream commit may solve the issue: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/portland/xdg-utils/commit/?id=845c4c67f8e3236016b59197c8d723d5f8fc0a4d
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New Contents:
Cause: there was a typo in the code
Consequence: thunderbird created a compose window, but the To: address was missing
Fix: a typo has been fixed
Result: destination address is passed in correctly
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-Cause: there was a typo in the code
+Previously, there was a typo found in the xdg-utils source code. As a consequence, Thunderbird, after passing in an email address, created a compose window without the "To:" address. With this update, the typo has been fixed so that the "To:" address is now passed in correctly.-
-Consequence: thunderbird created a compose window, but the To: address was missing
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-Fix: a typo has been fixed
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-Result: destination address is passed in correctly
(In reply to comment #10) > There is problem with escaping special characters when used in email address or > file name of attachment. Filed upstream as https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40041 - patches are there and are partially committed but we're still querying Thunderbird upstream to get clean solution. The inability to handle URI-encoded strings in Thunderbird however result in limitation of comma character use - leading to argument (address or attachment respectively) separation. Added few more patches in the xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6 build. Please note however due to the way Thunderbird handles the "-compose" argument, it's not possible to attach a file with comma in the filename. I doubt it was ever working, perhaps for old Thunderbird versions. Thunderbird upstream bugzilla for this issue is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678521 An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1229.html |