User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040502 Firefox/0.8.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040502 Firefox/0.8.0+ Thunderbird supports saving and opening .eml files through the Thunderbird interface, but it should also support opening files externally. If Thunderbird is my default mail client, .eml files (and maybe .msg too) should be associated with and open in Thunderbird. I would like to be able to double-click on a .eml file in explorer and have the file open in Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Save an email as a .eml file 2. Find the file in explorer 3. Double-click on the file Actual Results: The file opens in Outlook Express, if at all. Expected Results: The file should open in Thunderbird, just like if I had opened it from the menu.

see Bug 11076 and Bug 26201

it is sad that when opening an eml file I cant have thunderbird open up automatically!

I believe this is a duplicate of Bug 26201 (cf. this bug with Bug 26201 duplicates Bug 201882 and Bug 240681).

(In reply to comment #3) No, if I open a eml file with Mozilla's MailNews component, I get get the message displayed correctly (ok, in a browser window instead of a mail window, but that's acceptable), but if I do the same with Thunderbird nothing happens. (build 20040626 German) In MailNews the window issue is to be corrected and the file type must be registered, in Thunderbird it has to get working at all. When registering the file type it should be better handled as Firefox with .htm and .url.

(In reply to comment #4) > if I open a eml file with Mozilla's MailNews component, I get [...] the > message displayed correctly (ok, in a browser window instead of a mail window, > but that's acceptable) Yes, but you had to set up that file association yourself (and, if I recall correctly, you need a "file://%1" specifier in the command line); Mozilla doesn't do it automatically, which is bug 26201. > but if I do the same with Thunderbird nothing happens. Right you are, and that's this bug. Confirming, and updating summary for clarity. Need another bug about TB registering for the .EML extension.

Request for blocking 1.1. Take a look at my comment in Bug261559.

this patch requires the fix for bug 241212 to work correctly. Scott, what do you think of this approach?

Comment on attachment 184014 [details] [diff] [review] this implements opening .eml files from the command line 1) You might be able to move your file includes into the MOZ_XUL_APP ifdef right below them since the new command line code is inside a xul_app ifdef 2) Does outlook or OE pass a flag in? You can check in your windows registry to see if they do something like: thunderbird.exe -file test.eml 3) we should make sure the file extension is .eml before trying to open it.

carrying forward review

Comment on attachment 184686 [details] [diff] [review] fix addressing comments a=chofmann

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Verified Fixed with TB 1.0+0603. Thanks, David!

With TB 1.0+0603 I could open an eml file using Nautilus, in gnome, but I couldn't do this by the command line. Exactly what command line should be used?

Novell Groupwise saves email messages as "Mime.822", so I'd suggest checking for .822 exntensions as well. Something like: + if (StringEndsWith(arg, NS_LITERAL_STRING(".eml")) || StringEndsWith(arg, NS_LITERAL_STRING(".822")))

Paul, if you save a message with groupwise, and change the extension to .eml, can you open it with a recent thunderbird build? Or if you don't have a recent tbird trunk build, can you attach a msg saved with groupwise so I can try it myself? Before I relax the restriction, I want to make sure it works.

Is it possible to enable the Reply, Reply All, and Forward functions for .eml files opened outside of Thunderbird? (Thunderbird supports replying/forwarding whilst the main client is not "visible"). Outlook Express supports replying/forwarding of .eml files. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Save an email as a .eml file 2. Find the file in explorer 3. Double-click on the file Actual Results: The file opens in Thunderbird but the Reply, Reply All, and Forward buttons are "greyed out". Expected Results: The file should open in Thunderbird with the option to reply or forward.

Eventually, it will be possible. I have to do some work for that to work.

Still not fixed in the german version (*.eml files do not open at all!) It's pretty stupid IMO if TB lets the user save emails in a format that it can't open afterwards... Please fix this bug ASAP, thanks!

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(In reply to comment #18) > Still not fixed in the german version (*.eml files do not open at all!) It's > pretty stupid IMO if TB lets the user save emails in a format that it can't open > afterwards... Please fix this bug ASAP, thanks! I have the same problem with the german version. Just tested the latest english version from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/ The problem is still not fixed. If Thunderbird is opened, it only gets on top but does not open the file. If it is closed, nothing happens (only the process thunderbird.exe appears for a moment in task manager but then terminates).

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For upgrading 1.0.x to 1.5, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314085

(In reply to comment #9) > Created an attachment (id=184686) [edit] > fix addressing comments The attachment fixes opening of "*.eml" files but not "*.EML" files. The bug should be reopened. (I dont know how to do that...)

Jens Tautenhahn: open a new bug about that... and CC me on it.

please cc me as well - the fix is trivial, if the problem is simply the case of the .eml extension.

do a case-insensitive compare...

Jens, I've just landed attachment 235121 [details] [diff] [review] on the trunk - if you want to try a nightly build with that change and let me know if it fixes the problem for you, then I can land the patch on the 1.8.1 branch.

David: that sure fixes it for me.

I've landed the .EML fix on the 1.8.1 branch.

*** Bug 356949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 356949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***