Comment 70 for bug 151162

(In reply to comment #46)
> What is this patch trying to accomplish? If you're expecting the operating
> system to handle the data as a file, you should be using a file promise or file
> type.
That doesn't work... und Linux the desktop/filemanager expects that the file is passed as text/uri-list flavour and the desktop/filemanager is responsible to copy
the file to the correct destination.

> When using the url type, it is up to destination application to retrieve
> it, we shouldn't be creating it for them.
How should the destination application access the internal data of thunderbird
if it gets only a mailbox:// url passed? ;)
Now, we have to use the defined standards here...

Ciao,
Tobias