(In reply to sienkiew from comment #45)
> I don't understand why anybody would care about svn+ssh URLs in the email. 
Agreed. I can't imagine anyone caring much about svn+ssh URIs and they won't 
work in a GNOME environment anyway because of this very issue.

> That is, when using GConf for the lookup, first assume a string with '+' in
> it was not found.  
No! This is where the bug gets confusing... When thunderbird implements a GConf 
client, is handles the error and returns it to stdout.  The pop-up only occurs 
when support for GIO is compiled in.
Old versions of libgio call on GConf to lookup URIs and it's the old libgio 
code which causes the popup for the error.
Any change like your suggestion needs to be applied to Thunderbird's GIO client 
(and to completely remove the error, also to the GConf client)

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Title:
  Thunderbird2 gconf gmt problem 'Bad key or directory name' because of
  plus symbol (+)

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Confirmed
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Here is an error message for Thunderbird 2 in Jaunty

  gnubyexample@k8amd:~$ thunderbird
  GConf Error: Bad key or directory name: 
"/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/GMT+02/command": `+' is an invalid character in 
key/directory names
  gnubyexample@k8amd:~$ date;uname -a;cat /etc/*version*;dpkg -l | grep 
underbird
  Sun Aug  9 14:48:37 BST 2009                                                  
              
  Linux k8amd 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 00:28:35 UTC 2009 
i686 GNU/Linux    
  5.0                                                                           
              
  ii  enigmail                                   2:0.95.7-1ubuntu2              
                            Enigmail - GPG support for Thunderbird
  ii  thunderbird                                
2.0.0.22+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1                  mail/news client 
with RSS and integrated spam filter support                                     
                                                                                
                                             
  ii  thunderbird-locale-en-gb                   1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu2          
                            Thunderbird English language/region package  

  From reading this extract ( 
http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.desktop/2008-03/msg00020.html ):
    Subject:    Re: GConf/Thunderbird error on Solaris Nevada

    "Hi Mats,I believe you download the contribute builds of Thunderbird 2, and 
run
  it on snv_70.

  For some reason, the fix is upstreamed to Thunderbird 3 alpha, but not
  community version of Thunderbird 2.
  Fixed in snv_68 means the fix was integrated to Thunderbird bundled
  with snv_68."

  
  ...it seems that the fix for this in thunderbird2 might require some manual 
intervention as although the problem is well know, the fix was only 
incorporated in the newer thunderbird3.

  Have just checked the Karmic version at:
    http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/thunderbird
  which currently shows that version 2 of thunderbird is planned for Karmic 
release.

  As thunderbird3 is at Beta 3 right now I can perhaps see why debian and 
ubuntu are sticking with Thunderbird2 just now.
    http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/about/press/archive/2009-07-21-01

  However it does seem a shame to ship a new release with this known
  gconf issue unpatched.

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