From: [email protected]

Package: mozilla-thunderbird
Version: 0.7.3-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

If thunderbird is already open and I click on a link in firefox, it
tries to launch another thunderbird which results in profile dialog.

It would be nice if you check in the script if Thunderbird is already
running and then do a -remote call.

If thunderbird is not running it launches the compose window. I
personally would prefer that it launched first launched the thunderbird main window and then the compose window. Quite often I have to lookup
something before I send the mail

I still have a script which I used sometime ago (before switching to
Debian). You can find that script here http://ftp.haitsma.org/mozilla-scripts/thunderbird

Cheers,

Jaap

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From: [email protected]

If thunderbird is already open and I click on a link in firefox, it
tries to launch another thunderbird which results in profile dialog.

Hmm, that's strange ... for me it works like this:

mozilla-thunderbird -compose mailto:[email protected]
works

the second one:
mozilla-thunderbird -compose mailto:[email protected]

works too!

So what are you doing wrong? Maybe your link is somehow special?

It would be nice if you check in the script if Thunderbird is already
running and then do a -remote call.

I already do!! Take a look at the mozilla-thunderbird script. I check
for the
lock being existing. If that is there I will do a remote call.

I choose to do it that way, because the remote ping command takes quite
a while
to come back if no instance is running ... this would defer the start unnecessarily.

Nevertheless, the idea to always open the Inbox and then the compose
window is a good option IMHO

Nevertheless this change will not be uploaded for sarge, since I don't
want to introduce any changes anymore. Would be too dangerous!

I still have a script which I used sometime ago (before switching to
Debian). You can find that script here >http://ftp.haitsma.org/mozilla-scripts/thunderbird

Thx, I will suggest that script ... please keep it online till I close
this bug some day :) ... or attach it to this bug!

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Alexander Sack wrote:

If thunderbird is already open and I click on a link in firefox, it
tries to launch another thunderbird which results in profile dialog.

Hmm, that's strange ... for me it works like this:

mozilla-thunderbird -compose mailto:[email protected]
works

the second one:
mozilla-thunderbird -compose mailto:[email protected]

works too!

That works also for me. I found the problem I set my preferred mail
reader in the Preferred apps to mozilla-thunderbird %s if I change that
to mozilla-thunderbird -compose %s it works. IMHO it's a bug that I have
to add -compose to that string, because other apps might use that
setting to just fire up thunderbird. So the script should just parse the command line and if it sees a mailto add the -compose itself. (That's
what my script does)

It would also be nice if Thunderbird can be added to the list of
preferred mail reader apps. Don't know if that should be filed here or
in the gnome control center.

Attached the script for you.


Jaap

So what are you doing wrong? Maybe your link is somehow special?

It would be nice if you check in the script if Thunderbird is already
running and then do a -remote call.

I already do!! Take a look at the mozilla-thunderbird script. I check
for the
lock being existing. If that is there I will do a remote call.

I choose to do it that way, because the remote ping command takes quite
a while
to come back if no instance is running ... this would defer the start unnecessarily.

Nevertheless, the idea to always open the Inbox and then the compose
window is a good option IMHO

Nevertheless this change will not be uploaded for sarge, since I don't
want to introduce any changes anymore. Would be too dangerous!

I still have a script which I used sometime ago (before switching to
Debian). You can find that script here
http://ftp.haitsma.org/mozilla-scripts/thunderbird

Thx, I will suggest that script ... please keep it online till I close
this bug some day :) ... or attach it to this bug!

#!/bin/bash
#set -x # Uncomment "set -x" for debugging

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/thunderbird"

#check if command line arguments have the form "mailto:[email protected]?subject=something"
#if that's true put "[email protected]?subject=something" in MAILTO address
MAILTO=`echo $@ | awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} $1 ~ /mailto/ {print $2}'`

THUNDERBIRD_PATH="/usr/lib/thunderbird"

if [ -z "`ps x | grep \"[0-9] ${THUNDERBIRD_PATH}/thunderbird-bin\"`" ]; then
# No thunderbird running
${THUNDERBIRD_PATH}/thunderbird $@
else
# thunderbird running - raise window
${THUNDERBIRD_PATH}/thunderbird -remote "xfeDoCommand(openInbox)"
fi

if [ -n "$MAILTO" ]; then
${THUNDERBIRD_PATH}/thunderbird -remote "mailto($MAILTO)"
fi

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From: [email protected]

That works also for me. I found the problem I set my preferred mail
reader in the Preferred apps to mozilla-thunderbird %s if I change
that to mozilla-thunderbird -compose %s it works. IMHO it's a bug that
I have to add -compose to that string, because other apps might use
that setting to just fire up thunderbird. So the script should just
parse the command line and if it sees a mailto add the -compose
itself. (That's what my script does)

There is currently no standard for mail reader commands in debian.
Unless that is done, I won't change that behaviour until there is
something like a standard for a x-mail-composer/reader alternative
command (like x-www-browser). Until then I will stick to -compose,
because upstream uses it to compose mail. and it prints that on --help.

It would also be nice if Thunderbird can be added to the list of
preferred mail reader apps. Don't know if that should be filed here or
in the gnome control center.

I already filed that one at gnome-control-center (including a patch),
but the old maintainer (marillat) didn't like that idea.
Maybe you can find that bug in the archive and can refer to it, when
posting a new wishlist bug.
Maybe you want to refer to this bug too.

If you have luck, the new maintainers will do it manually. IMHO, the
best solution would still be, to add a standardized x-mail-composer
command to the alternatives system and add that one to the
control-center only! Good luck

Attached the script for you.

Thx

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Alexander Sack wrote:

That works also for me. I found the problem I set my preferred mail
reader in the Preferred apps to mozilla-thunderbird %s if I change
that to mozilla-thunderbird -compose %s it works. IMHO it's a bug that
I have to add -compose to that string, because other apps might use
that setting to just fire up thunderbird. So the script should just
parse the command line and if it sees a mailto add the -compose
itself. (That's what my script does)

There is currently no standard for mail reader commands in debian.
Unless that is done, I won't change that behaviour until there is
something like a standard for a x-mail-composer/reader alternative
command (like x-www-browser). Until then I will stick to -compose,
because upstream uses it to compose mail. and it prints that on --help.

You can just check if the first thing on the command line is mailto: if
it is you prepend -compose if it isn't you do nothing. So you keep the
same behaviour as upstream, only you have a nice extra feature ;-)

It would also be nice if Thunderbird can be added to the list of
preferred mail reader apps. Don't know if that should be filed here or
in the gnome control center.

I already filed that one at gnome-control-center (including a patch),
but the old maintainer (marillat) didn't like that idea.
Maybe you can find that bug in the archive and can refer to it, when
posting a new wishlist bug.
Maybe you want to refer to this bug too.

If you have luck, the new maintainers will do it manually. IMHO, the
best solution would still be, to add a standardized x-mail-composer
command to the alternatives system and add that one to the
control-center only! Good luck

I'll give it a try

Jaap


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