GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 318052
Selecting mozilla-thunderbird as the preferred mail app still launches evolution
Last modified: 2011-02-02 12:57:56 UTC
Version details: 0.4 Distribution/Version: Ubuntu Breezy Forwarded from: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17103 I access System --> Preferences --> Preferred Applications. I select the Mail Reader tab. I select custom. I enter the following : /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird, and then I close the Preferred Applications applet. Now when I go to Nautilus and right-click with the mouse on a file and select Send To... I still get Evolution showing up as the default mailer.
At this time is imposible because with thunderbird is imposible send a mail with attachments from the command line :( . The good news is that i've prepared the plugin and when thunderbird add this feature ... voila !
Created attachment 59066 [details] Adds thunderbird integration to nautilus sendto For more info please check http://www.interveritas.net/thunderbird/
Hello Roberto! Yes, it is possible to use thunderbird to send a mail with attachments from command line. Please check out the lib ive attached. (In reply to comment #1) > At this time is imposible because with thunderbird is imposible send a mail > with attachments from the command line :( . The good news is that i've prepared > the plugin and when thunderbird add this feature ... voila ! >
Shouldn't it use the default mailer regardless of where the addressbook is?
I wholeheartedly agree Bastien, the sendto feature ought to use the default mailer. Unfortunatley Nautilus-sendto will still not register the change of mail client, in the case of installing thunderbird, despite changing the default client in preferred applications. Personally I have searched the Gnome support forums, & Ubuntu forums for a solution to this. To eventually find this bug report and it would seem that little progress has been made since April. I have had no success with Igor's solution. In all due fairness, on the site he mentioned above states that it was compile for an earlier version of nautilus-sendto than is installed on my system. I lack the skills needed to get it to run on my system. This in all due honesty has driven me up the wall until such time as I found a utility known as nautilus-actions. As a result I now have a functional 'workaround' set up on my system, (Ubuntu 6.10), though I have had no success with attaching multiple files via this method.
The patch doesn't work for me either, resorting to nautilus-actions System -> Preferences -> Nautilus Actions Configuration command line options: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html ********************************************************* SEND-TO PATCH BUG Memory status: size: 40394752 vsize: 0 resident: 40394752 share: 0 rss: 11894784 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 1168872760 rtime: 0 utime: 68 stime: 0 cutime:60 cstime: 0 timeout: 8 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0 Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/nautilus-sendto' (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1224788304 (LWP 19245)] (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
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We can't fix that without either hardcoding the binary names in nautilus-sendto, or having the control-center provide us with the information. The latter is preferred...
*** Bug 531404 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 449036 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is known not to work with: - mailers that require a terminal - unknown mailers that don't use evolution's mailto: syntax File separate bugs about those, or if there are any problems with the current code. 2009-02-09 Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> * configure.in: * src/plugins/balsa/*: * src/plugins/sylpheed-claws/*: * src/plugins/thunderbird/*: Remove the separate mailer plugins, and only use the evolution one instead * src/plugins/evolution/evolution.c (get_evo_cmd), (init), (get_evo_mailto), (get_balsa_mailto), (get_thunderbird_mailto), (get_sylpheed_mailto), (send_files), (destroy): Try to guess the default mailer from the GNOME default mailto: handler. When the mailer can't be guessed, fallback to using evolution instead. When the mailer is known, use its specific function to create the arugments that will allow sending files. (Closes: #318052)