[Evolution] Bug#545973: Bug#545973: evolution doesn't handle encoded mailto urls

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Giuseppe Sacco a écrit :
> Package: evolution
> Version: 2.26.3-3
> Severity: important
> 
> My application requires to open the default mail client and to compose a
> new message using a specific attachment.
> 
> In order to be desktop manager agnostic, I use the command xdg-email.
> When gnome is the running desktop manager, xdg-open calls gnome-open,
> and gnome-open call evolution.
> 
> xdg-email encode the attachment pathname into URL, and gnome-open call
> evolution using the same encoded string, but evolution doesn't un-encode
> that string and cannot find the specified file.
> 
> Example:
> 
> $ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=30 /usr/bin/xdg-email \
>     --attach /tmp/allegato5316366537919686103.TIF 
> Running gnome-open "mailto:?attach=%2Ftmp%2Fallegato5316366537919686103.TIF"
> 
> you may see that xdg-email encode the string and call gnome-open. Then
> evolution pop up and display an (Italian) error message: Impossibile
> allegare il file «%2Ftmp%2Fallegato5316366537919686103.TIF» a questo
> messaggio (It's not possible to attache file ... to this message). The
> error message detail says "file not found".
> 
> I tried calling directory evolution using this mailto URI and I get the
> same error. The command I write is:
> $ evolution "mailto:?attach=%2Ftmp%2Fallegato5316366537919686103.TIF"
> 
You really should submit that directly upstream. I'm not really sure
evolution is supposed to decode those kind of uris anyway; but better
ask upstream.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis