send to email doesnt open new mail

[chris_c]

if I right click a file and select send to
and then send as email
thunderbird is focused but nothing happens.

It used to open a new mail with the file attached.

[chris_c (c-camacho)]

confirmed

thunderbird -compose attachment=file://path and name of file

works

[chris_c (c-camacho)]

for some reason there was a custom entry in the
default mail handler preferences

I did not add this

there were also 2 others one thunderbird (with icon) and
the other mozilla thunderbird (with icon)

I did not add the not properly working custom item nor
either of the 2 available options

install of thunderbird / uninstall of evolution must be causing
this buggy setting of the default emailer ?

[chris_c (c-camacho)]

window screen shot of above

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I tried to reproduce this bug. I saw that this bug is reproduced only when I select "Mozilla Thunderbird" entry in Preferred Applications. Can you select "Thunderbird" and check if everything works as expected?

If you have trouble, do not hesitate to ask for more assistance. Thanks in advance.

[chris_c (c-camacho)]

both "Mozilla Thunderbird" and "Thunderbird" appear to work ok

its the "custom" option (that I did not add or change to) that caused the bug

This bug happened from a fresh install, sometime after uninstalling evolution

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thanks Chris for your reply. I'm a little confused, can you give me the exact sequence of install/uninstall that you did to reach this problem? I'd like to try and reproduce this on my computer so that I can confirm this bug.

Thanks in advance :)

[chris_c (c-camacho)]

Installed from scratch 9.10 installed thunderbird uninstalled evolution and as much of evolution I could without breaking gnome

[Vytautas (vytautas-germanavicius)]

Quick fix:
1. go to system -> settings -> prefferred programs
2. chose custom in mail program list
3. you will see :
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird "%s"
4. change it to
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird %s
5. close

that's all..

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, is that still an issue in lucid?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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