Public bug reported:
When attaching a file to Thunderbird using xdg-email, it passes the full
path to Thunderbird, as possible with TB3+. However, the syntax of TB
uses the comma "," as filename separator. If a filename already contains
a comma, Thunderbird will not find it and fails to attach it.
This could probably be fixed in Thunderbird, but would require them to
change their command line syntax which is a big change. A different
solution is to change from the "full path" syntax to "file://<path>"
using a full URL-encodeing?
Example: the file is located at "/home/someuser/file, name.txt"
Calling xdg-email with "xdg-email --attach '/home/someuser/file,
name.txt'" will produce (XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=1)
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh -compose
"attachment='/home/someuser/file, name.txt'"
And Thunderbird expects two files now, one "/home/someuser/file" and the
other "name.txt". Instead
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh -compose
"attachment='file///home/someuser/file%2C%20name.txt'"
works.
As it turned out, not much needs to be changed. I created a crude patch
to change from "file name scheme" to "uri scheme" against the version
below with (for me) solves the issue. Note that I'm not a bash expert,
so the solution might give room for improvement.
Some information:
>apt policy xdg-utils
xdg-utils:
Installiert: 1.1.2-1ubuntu2.3
Installationskandidat: 1.1.2-1ubuntu2.3
lsb_release will list Linux Mint Tess (19.1), upstream based on Ubuntu
Bionic (hence the bug reported here)
** Affects: xdg-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Patch added: "xdg-email.diff"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1823689/+attachment/5254077/+files/xdg-email.diff
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xdg-email fails to attach filesnames with a comma "," to thunderbird
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