Lei Zhang wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007 2:36 AM, Hans Leidekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Friday 21 December 2007 00:18:43 Mark Neyhart wrote: >> >> >>> Extend the MAILTO: string produced by the MAPISendMail function to include >>> an attachment list. Because I was unable to find any standard for MAILTO >>> regarding attachments, I constructed the attachment list in the format >>> specified for Mozilla command line options. >>> >> Breaking other mail clients to gain attachments support for Mozilla is not >> acceptable tradeoff IMO. >> >> -Hans >> >> >> >> > > Mozilla and Thunderbird do not support attachments via mailtos. At > least not on Linux. > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99055#c6 > > - Lei > > > Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird do not support mail attachments through the methods used by other mail clients and the Thunderbird team plans on not fixing this (the bug above should be closed as WONTFIX if I remember correctly from my work with OpenOffice.org for the Mac.)
Thus creating a patch for this method is worthless for both Thunderbird as it may/may not work with the next major release and will not work with any other Linux/Mac mail program (Mail for the Mac works in the same manner as does most Linux mailers.) Mailto: does work for Outlook and its ilk. James McKenzie
