On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM Alessandro Astone <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I did some research on this. > > The alternative used in GNOME to send files as email attachments from > Nautilus is the org.freedesktop.portal.Email desktop portal. > Unfortunately this uses a non-standard extension to the `mailto:` URI > protocol to include attachments: an extension that Thunderbird, the > default mail client in Ubuntu Desktop, does not implement -- not for > lack of interest but for security concerns: > https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/pull/447#issuecomment-1761589783 > > Furthermore, if this were to actually work for sandboxed applications > (which currently it should not), a malicious application could > effectively read the full host filesystem by just opening `mailto:` URIs > on itself. > > nautilus-sendto itself is a fairly trivial program: it calls a > client-specific commandline, for every mail client known to it. That of > course means that it requires continuous maintenance for adding support > for new mail clients, but on the other hand there is no real standard > interface available to implement instead. > > I think we'll keep using it in Ubuntu Desktop (through a patch in nautilus)
That patch is https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/nautilus/-/blob/ubuntu/latest/debian/patches/ubuntu/nautilus-sendto.patch Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
