mozilla-thunderbird missing symlink prevents other apps from sending mail
Bug #312738 reported by
Sam Morris
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In Ubuntu 7.10 and earlier, thunderbird was shipped with an executable '/usr/bin/
In 8.04, this was changed to only be '/usr/bin/
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-
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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.