Comment 3 for bug 1909941

This is different to the old bug. Prior to the recent change to xdg-email, simple scan "send by email" was working fine.

I think that the problem is because xdg-email assembles command line arguments such as -attach to form a mailto: URL and passes that to run_thunderbird, which recently got changed to drop the attachment field from the mailto: url (I think on the assumption that the mailto: url could only come from a browser click).

The proper fix would probably be to break any command line mailto: URL down into component parts and drop any "attach" argument before reassembling as today, and reinstate the code removed in the recent change.

In the above simple-scan bug report I added a patch which just reinstated the original code but only if the caller is not Chrome/Chromium as those are the only browsers in question in my environment (Firefox appears to call Thunderbird directly).