Sending an attachment from the command line with a "ë or ä" in the filename does not work!

[Jelle de Jong]

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

Sending an attachment with an ë or similar characters" in the filename does not work.

It gives a very strange non useful warning about permissions and temp directory!

Use the attachment file as test file and you will see the problem.

[Smontagu (smontagu)]

This looks like a dupe of bug 208363, but in fact it WORKSFORME in Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (20060615), though not in trunk seamonkey.

[Smontagu (smontagu)]

Reporter, what version of thunderbird are you using? I believe this has been fixed since 1.4

[Kjetilo (kjetilo)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Reporter, what version of thunderbird are you using? I believe this has been
> fixed since 1.4
>

version 1.5.0.4 (20060615)

I would not have filed a bug-report for an un-updated version.

[Mkmelin+mozilla (mkmelin+mozilla)]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060724 Thunderbird/2.0a1 ID:2006072403

[Jelle de Jong (jelledejong)]

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

sending a attachment with a "ë or similar characters" in the filename does not work.

It gives a very strange non useful warning about permissions and temp directory!

use the attachment file as test file and you will see the problem

[Dennis Dirdjaja (dcd-ditsch)]

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you know which filesystem you use (that could be related information)?

I could not reproduce it on my machine (Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 PPC). Attachment is sent just fine.

[Jelle de Jong (jelledejong)]

I did some more testing and when I compose the file from the thunderbird menu -> file -> new -> message
and then attach the file and send it it will go fine indeed!

But i use a script for sending files this is the command it produces it looks fine but it will generate a error!
Is it a error in the command or thunderbird?

mozilla-thunderbird --compose "subject='ëën strängë fïlë',attachment='file:///home/jelle/ëën strängë fïlë.txt',body=This message contains the following attachment(s): ëën strängë fïlë.txt
the command looks like it executed ok! but when trying to send it get messy?

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html#Syntax_Rules

[Jelle de Jong (jelledejong)]

mozilla-thunderbird --compose "subject='ëën strängë fïlë',attachment='file:///home/jelle/ëën strängë fïlë.txt',body=This message contains the following attachment(s): ëën strängë fïlë.txt "

[Jelle de Jong (jelledejong)]

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[Jelle de Jong (jelledejong)]

uname -a
Linux xubuntu-ubuntu 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/sda3 ext3 rw 0 0

xubuntu 7.04

[Dennis Dirdjaja (dcd-ditsch)]

Ok, I can confirm this with my installation. This bug is also filed upstream for Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, but still seems to be existing in the Feisty package (Thunderbird 1.5.0.10).
In upstream bug, someone said it should be fixed in Thunderbird 2.0. Upstream bug connected to this report.

[Jelle de Jong (jelledejong)]

Dennis thank you for clearing up the issue, I hope it will be fixed soon.

Jelle

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Assigned to Mozilla Team

[Gary-rumblingedge (gary-rumblingedge)]

Resolving WFM based on comment #4.

[Jelle de Jong (jelledejong)]

** Changed in: thunderbird
       Status: New => Invalid

Why did the status changed? I still have the issue, try sending the email with the example file.

Thanks in advance,

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

What version are you using? This works here with thunderbird 2.0.0.21

[Dennis Dirdjaja (dcd-ditsch)]

I can still reproduce it with the procedure and file above. Please note this only appears when composing the message per command-line script. When composing the mail via the Thunderbird UI, everything is working fine. Screenshot of error message attached.

Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

[Jelle de Jong (jelledejong)]

issue is still there, the report is for composing email from the commandiline see below and the screenshots

    [ -e /usr/bin/icedove ] && application="icedove"
    [ -e /usr/bin/thunderbird ] && application="thunderbird"
    $application --compose "subject=$subject,attachment=$attachment,body=$body"

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I noticed the package your bugging is updated in Maverick. Does this occur in it? If so, please feel free to mark this bug as new. Thanks in advance!

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Jelle,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird. You made this bug report in 2007 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know and, in the current version, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 111231
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.
G

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug did not expire due to bug watch
Upstream bug report closed "RESOLVED WORKSFORME" on 2008-09-28
No comments from reporter for nearly 10 years
No reply to gf's request for information
Marking "Invalid" to close