264270 - (mid-urls) thunderbird should support the mid: URL scheme defined in RFC 2392

Reporter

Description

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20 years ago

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.8 (20040922) The mid: and cid: URL schemes, defined by RFC 2392 <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2392.txt>, permit applications to refer to messages or the body parts of messages. For your convenience, I give sample URLs in these schemes at the end. In particular, these two URL schemes enable applications to refer to messages in the user's mail store. Thunderbird does not presently appear to register itself as a handler for either of the mid: and cid: schemes. I speculate that this is because Thunderbird doesn't currently index Message-Ids and Content-Ids, and thus is unable to display a message given it's Message-Id in a performant manner. My request is that Thunderbird include this functionality & support. SAMPLE mid: AND cid: SCHEME URLs: mid:foo4-foo1@bar.net (refers to a message with Message-Id foo4-foo1@bar.net) cid:herringbone2-part5@nicedomain.net (refers to a body part of some message with Content-Id herringbone2-part5@nicedomain.net) mid:960830.1639@XIson.com/partA.960830.1639@XIson.com (refers to a body part with Content-Id partA.960830.1639@XIson.com, with the additional information that this body part is within the message with Message-Id 960830.1639@XIson.com) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:

Sean Vickery

Reporter

Comment 1

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20 years ago

To give an example of why this functionality would be very handy, let me describe the situation this morning that led me to filing this RFE: I received an email informing me of a forthcoming meeting. Notice of the meeting is not available on the web, only in the email message. I used Sunbird to mark an event in my calendar for the meeting. I would have liked to have been able to have entered into Sunbird's URI field for the event an mid: scheme url referring to the message (still in my message store) which notified me of the meeting. Having this mid: scheme URL entered into Sunbird would enable me to quickly recall the notification message (by pressing the Visit URI button for the event). (Of course, all this presupposes that Sunbird's Visit URI button works for other URI schemes, which does not appear to be true, at least for the version of Sunbird I'm using - Mozilla/5.0 (rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040907 Sunbird/0.2a .. the most recently available build that's packaged with a Windows installer.)

Gervase Markham [:gerv]

Comment 2

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19 years ago

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Sean Vickery

Reporter

Comment 3

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19 years ago

I just checked Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1 and this RFE has not been implemented. To check (in Windows): Start menu/Run... mid:abc@def.ghi where abc@def.ghi is the Message-Id of some message in your local message store. While, I admit, making Thunderbird capable of opening messages or body-parts from the command line is unlikely to be a 'killer feature', I think it's it's something the Thunderbird developers might like to consider adding.

André Schild

Comment 4

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18 years ago

Duplicate of #254015 ?

Phil Ringnalda (:philor)

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18 years ago

QA Contact: general

Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]

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17 years ago

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4 years ago

Changes made in Thunderbird 78 have broken the mechanism Thunderlink uses to display a message when an external link is clicked. Detailed discussion of the problem may be found at github.com/mikehardy/thunderlink#64 "Compatibility with version 78 (next release)." Mike, the original author of Thunderlink, suggested that the easiest way to fix this would be to build the functionality into the core, and implementing this RFE was mentioned.

Thunderlink provides interoperability that I've found invaluable, I believe implementing this RFE would provide useful functionality to Thunderbird.

Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]

Comment 12

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4 years ago

Let's keep this for the mid: url. (I don't see what cid would ever be used for). We want it for use cases such as bug 1667959, bug 457177. Another one is allowing opening the quoted message (message quotes have mid: urls)

Just a few notes:

we have this that we use mailnews.headers.showReferences: https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/5cda2cb985aaf24a65cd766f6ba3fa3332df0d25/mail/base/content/mailContextMenus.js#185
see bug 1684756 for how we already have a command line option to open a message url (not mid url)

Alias: mid-urls

Assignee: nobody → remotenonsense

Priority: -- → P2

Summary: thunderbird should support the mid: & cid: URL schemes defined in RFC 2392 → thunderbird should support the mid: URL scheme defined in RFC 2392

Ping Chen [:rnons] (away)

Assignee

Comment 13

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4 years ago

Attached file Bug 264270 - Support opening a message by mid url. r=mkmelin (deleted) — Details

Ping Chen [:rnons] (away)

Assignee

Updated

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4 years ago

Status: NEW → ASSIGNED

Keywords: checkin-needed-tb

Target Milestone: --- → 87 Branch

Pulsebot

Comment 14

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4 years ago

Pushed by mkmelin@iki.fi:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/77452c9776eb
Support opening a message by mid url. r=mkmelin

Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED

Closed: 4 years ago

Keywords: checkin-needed-tb

Resolution: --- → FIXED

Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]

Updated

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4 years ago

status-thunderbird_esr78: --- → wontfix

Alice0775 White

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4 years ago

Regressions: 1696218

Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)

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4 years ago

Blocks: 1704424, 1704421

fieldhouse

Comment 15

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3 years ago

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #12)

Let's keep this for the mid: url. (I don't see what cid would ever be used for). ...

Consider an email whose content is supposed to represent a rich-text document with embedded images, attachments, etc.

Some clients (Apple Mail, eg) use a MIME structure like this (say, a single PDF attachment):

multipart/alternative
    text/plain
    multipart/mixed
        text/html (1)
        application/pdf
        text/html (2)

This email has no visible attachments when viewing the text alternative.

With this structure, the attachment is visible regardless of text vs html view, but the position of the attachment link within the html part is lost, unless the attachment is included twice:

multipart/mixed
    multipart/alternative
        text/plain
        text/html (1+2)
    application/pdf

However with Content-Id: xxx specified for the PDF attachment, the html part could contain this <a href="cid:xxx">Attached PDF document</a> at the point where the attachment is referenced in the html part. When viewed as text, the message should have the plain text and a visible attachment in the attachment pane; when viewed as HTML, there would be a link in the hypertext that would open the PDF attachment according to the user's settings.

At least if that use of cid: was understood it might be possible to reformat the first structure into the second.