Bug#827901: caja-sendto does not pass any parameters to mailer, so send to mail does not work at all

[Erik Thiele]

Package: caja-sendto
Version: 1.8.0-3
Severity: grave

this report is about the feature of caja to send files by email when
caja-sendto package is installed. therefore you right click on a file
in caja and say sendto. then you choose email and enter a mail address.

I set severity to grave as debian documentation sais i should mark as
grave when the package in question is unusable or mostly so. since the
main task of caja-sendto is send files by mail, I hope grave is the
right severity, also I think that right click on a file to send it by
email is an important major feature of the mate desktop.

i am using the mate desktop and created a new system user to make sure,
that all configuration is clean.

to see error messages, i use the console instead of right click on a
file:

from the console i do:
#caja-sendto bla-2.png 
Init caja burn plugin
Init pidgin plugin
Init gajim plugin
Init email client plugin
Init removable-devices plugin
** Message: Mailer type: 0
** Message: Command: icedove

^^ you see Command: icedove without any parameters.

i can switch the system default mailer to claws-mail and get:

#caja-sendto bla-2.png 
Init caja burn plugin
Init pidgin plugin
Init gajim plugin
Init email client plugin
Init removable-devices plugin
** Message: Mailer type: 3
** Message: Command: claws-mail

^^ again you see there are no parameters passed to claws-mail.

so in both cases the mailer will open but not compose an email and also
not append the attachments.

also you see in the icedove case that icedove is not recognized as
icedove (it should be mailer type 4, see emailclient.c in the
sourcecode). this is because debian calls it icedove and caja-send
checks for "thunder".

i appended a patch to this report which fixes both issues:

- icedove is recognized as thunderbird (mailer type 4) correctly.

- mailer opens compose window and attachments are appended.



cu
erik
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