Ubuntu
mozilla-thunderbird package

Does not handle mailto URI according to standard

Bug #122969 reported by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-06-29

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

Hi,

Most web publishers use the email URI like this:
mailto:<email address hidden>

The above behavior is supported by Thunderbird. However the specification says addresses should have a name proceeded by an address wrapped up in single brackets like this:
mailto:Full%20Name%20%<email address hidden>%3E (escaped: Full Name <email address hidden>)

The above URI is NOT supported by Thunerbird. Thunderbird gets focus from web browsers, but does not open a composer window and populates the receiver field.

Note that "mailto:Full%20Name" is not valid according to the standard, but SHOULD pre populate the receiver field and suggest addresses from the address book (if possible) too.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 29 07:10:06 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: mozilla-thunderbird 1.5.0.12-0ubuntu0.7.04
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: mozilla-thunderbird
Uname: Linux Avernakis 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:17:24 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Daniel Aleksandersen (da2x) wrote on 2007-06-29:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Daniel Aleksandersen (da2x) wrote on 2007-06-29: Fixed by escaping

The problem can be fixed by escaping @ with %40. However no one really does that, do they?..

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Joel Goguen (jgoguen) wrote on 2009-01-30:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? I have been unable to reproduce this issue with Thunderbird 2.0.0.19. Specifically, the following mailto: URIs all work as expected:

mailto:<email address hidden> -> To: is filled with '<email address hidden>'
mailto:Joel%20Goguen%20%<email address hidden>%3E -> To: is filled with 'Joel Goguen <email address hidden>'
mailto:Joel%20Goguen%20%3Cjgoguen%40jgoguen.ca%3E -> To: is filled with 'Joel Goguen <email address hidden>'
mailto:Joel Goguen <email address hidden> -> To: is filled with 'Joel Goguen <email address hidden>'

Thanks in advance.

Changed in mozilla-thunderbird:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Joel Goguen (jgoguen) wrote on 2009-02-22:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!