Ubuntu
thunderbird package

mozilla-thunderbird missing symlink prevents other apps from sending mail

Bug #312738 reported by Sam Morris on 2008-12-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #145716: panel launchers break on upgrade. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	thunderbird (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Hardy by Sam Morris

Bug Description

In Ubuntu 7.10 and earlier, thunderbird was shipped with an executable '/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird'.

In 8.04, this was changed to only be '/usr/bin/thunderbird'.

This caused openoffice.org to no longer be able to send emails. This was a very important feature that my Dad used--which he spent six months thinking that he had broken himself--that stopped working when upgrading to 8.04.

The problem is that his openoffice.org preferences still referred to 'mozilla-thunderbird' and were not updated to 'thunderbird' during the upgrade.

Revision history for this message

Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2009-01-05:

User preferences (in $HOME) can not be overriden by application installation so the fact that the helper link disappeared might be considered a bug. Reassigning to mozilla-thunderbird.

Revision history for this message

Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2009-05-24:

/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird has been added in Jaunty and on, if you need this backported to hardy, you can click the Nominate for Release button to request it

affects:	mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu) → thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released
summary:	- Can't send emails via openoffice.org after upgrade + mozilla-thunderbird missing symlink prevents other apps from sending + mail