SeaMonkey Mail: subject not handled properly when a mailto: link is clicked

[Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov]

Hello,

Whenever I click a mailto: link with a subject, e. g.:



the new message window opens with a non-empty subject, but the plus
signs are not replaced with spaces, i. e. I get
"Lorem+ipsum+dolor+sit+amet", not "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet".

This is reproducible using
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
> SeaMonkey/2.46
and
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49

Is this a known issue?

Regards,
Andrey.



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Re: SeaMonkey Mail: subject not handled properly when a mailto: link is clicked

[Jonathan N. Little]

Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov wrote:

Hello,

Whenever I click a mailto: link with a subject, e. g.:



the new message window opens with a non-empty subject, but the plus
signs are not replaced with spaces, i. e. I get
"Lorem+ipsum+dolor+sit+amet", not "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet".

This is reproducible using

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
SeaMonkey/2.46

and

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49


Is this a known issue?


I don't know, isn't mailto links not really a standard? Anyway, should 
you not format it URL escaping to get what you want?





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Lorem+ipsum+dolor+sit+amet

[GérardJan]

this worked well.

sincerely,

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Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49a2
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail: subject not handled properly when a mailto: link is clicked

[Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov]

Hello Jonathan,

Thank you for your response.

mailto: links are indeed standard, with Mozilla products (since Netscape
4.x) supporting only part of the standard.

Since the format of the URL is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", both
+ and %20 should be supported -- see RFC 2368
, RFC 1738

 and RFC 3986 .

Regards,
Andrey.

On 04.07.2017 16:52, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Whenever I click a mailto: link with a subject, e. g.:
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>> the new message window opens with a non-empty subject, but the plus
>> signs are not replaced with spaces, i. e. I get
>> "Lorem+ipsum+dolor+sit+amet", not "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet".
>>
>> This is reproducible using
>>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
>>> SeaMonkey/2.46
>> and
>>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
>>> Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49
>>
>> Is this a known issue?
> 
> I don't know, isn't mailto links not really a standard? Anyway, should
> you not format it URL escaping to get what you want?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Lorem+ipsum+dolor+sit+amet

[Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov]

Surely it did,

but the subject should have been

> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

not

> Lorem+ipsum+dolor+sit+amet

Regards,
Andrey.

On 04.07.2017 17:16, GérardJan wrote:
> this worked well.
> 
> sincerely,
> 



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Re: IMAP email

[EE]

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

EE wrote:

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

EE wrote:


Paul B. Gallagher wrote:


In the Server Settings, does your ISP require your full email
address (nu...@bees.wax) or only the prefix (nunya) as your
username? Getting that wrong could cause authentication to fail.
Compare what you did in TB.


I actually compared the two setups in about:config, and made sure
that they were alike. It did not help. Since Thunderbird works, I
can just use that, and also webmail (to get rid of the trash).


OK, next question: In the Server Settings, does it say "Server Type: POP
Mail Server"? Or did you choose IMAP during the setup process?


I chose IMAP.  Maybe the next version of SeaMonkey will work better.



It's not SeaMonkey. IMAP works with SeaMonkey. I may float an idea that
maybe the server requires some kind of "register device" as Google does?
Have noticed that when folks bungle the setup at the start that
sometimes you have to clear the account before it will successfully
work. Try a temporary new profile.

What is a "register device"?  Why did the setup work with Thunderbird 
and not with SeaMonkey if such a thing is needed?  I am not too 
concerned about its security since I read everything as plain text.


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Re: IMAP email

[EE]

EE wrote:

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

EE wrote:

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

EE wrote:


Paul B. Gallagher wrote:


In the Server Settings, does your ISP require your full email
address (nu...@bees.wax) or only the prefix (nunya) as your
username? Getting that wrong could cause authentication to fail.
Compare what you did in TB.


I actually compared the two setups in about:config, and made sure
that they were alike. It did not help. Since Thunderbird works, I
can just use that, and also webmail (to get rid of the trash).


OK, next question: In the Server Settings, does it say "Server Type:
POP
Mail Server"? Or did you choose IMAP during the setup process?


I chose IMAP.  Maybe the next version of SeaMonkey will work better.



It's not SeaMonkey. IMAP works with SeaMonkey. I may float an idea that
maybe the server requires some kind of "register device" as Google does?
Have noticed that when folks bungle the setup at the start that
sometimes you have to clear the account before it will successfully
work. Try a temporary new profile.


What is a "register device"?  Why did the setup work with Thunderbird
and not with SeaMonkey if such a thing is needed?  I am not too
concerned about its security since I read everything as plain text.

I just tried a newer version of SeaMonkey with a fresh profile.  I could 
still not add a new IMAP account to it.  I give up.  I shall just use 
Thunderbird or webmail.


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