Subject not filled when CC and Subject in mailto Link

[Christoph Langner]

Binary package hint: desktop-webmail

When i click on this...

<a href="mailto:<email address hidden>?<email address hidden>&amp;subject=Hallo%20Fritz,%20hallo%20Heidi">cc und Subject</a>

...link desktop-webmail fills the to- and cc-fields, but not the subject line. Tested with Google Mail and Chromium.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: desktop-webmail 002-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 17 15:02:21 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100224.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: desktop-webmail

[Joel Ebel (jbebel)]

I don't know about the other webmail systems, but gmail doesn't appear to handle multiple parameters. Here's a simple test:

desktop-webmail "mailto:?subject=SUBJECT&body=BODY"

This opens the following URL:
https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=mailto:?subject=SUBJECT&body=BODY

If you put that directly in chrome or firefox, the body doesn't get set. However, this URL does work:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=mailto:?subject=SUBJECT%26body=BODY

Likewise, encoding the '&' to %26 in the url given to desktop-webmail, this works:

desktop-webmail "mailto:?subject=SUBJECT%26body=BODY"

Perhaps desktop-webmail should be responsible for converting the '&' to %26. It doesn't seem like this should be the responsibility of xdg-open or gnome-open.