Ooops, description was wrong. I propose a new and understandable version :

Description :
On Mac OS X, Mail (Mail.app)  is currently used by default to "send active
document as mail" , without do anything. 

This is rather a task then a feature.

Created attachment 33035 [details]
Patch to provide support for other MUA's on Mac

Fix commited to CWS macosx20xfixes01.

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ericb->obr

Sorry, I reopne this issue it does not work as expected

Tests made on Mac OS X 10.4.3  / gcc-4.0.1 / m149
Customization : Tools -> Options -> Internet -> E-mail -> Mail client

Works with :
1) empty string, Mail is used by default
2) using :  /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail


Does *not* work with : 

1) 
 /Applications/tunderbird.app 
-> does not start

2)
 /Applications/tunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/tunderbird.bin 
-> Document is not attached or problem if Thunderbird is already started

3) 
/Applications/Mozilla.app/Contents/MacOS/mozilla : does not open mozilla mailer
...and session problems if Mozilla is already open.

4) 
/Applications/Mozilla.app : nothing occurs

Hi eric,

#2 and #3 won't work with "open" and I don't think these are valid use cases.

What _should_ work are #1 and #4. Did you try without path as well (e.g.
"thunderbird.app", "Mozilla.app") ?

ericb->obr

I have tested 2 and 3 because it's not possible to validate when a directory is
choosen, excepted when you write yourself the path. I guess Mac users will do
excatly the same : select until choice can ba validated.


I have tried :

Mozilla.app opens the active document inside Mozilla
thunderbird.app does not work : thunderbird opens, and that's all

What do we use for 1.1.x ? 

FYI,  Patrick Luby provided a fix for Mozilla wrapper. I'm perhaps wrong, but
isn't it possible to reuse it ? ( I can attach the patch if you need it)

[OT] I'm still buzy with my job today and tomorrow. After, I'll have a lot of
time to have a look. Sorry, I cannot before

Seems that I need to look more deeply into what Mozilla/Thunderbird do in their
launch/apple scripts.

re-assigned.

shifting target again due to lack of time / resources.

obr:

Is this not a Thunderbird problem and not an OpenOffice.org problem?  I think
this was pointed out in the mac@porting mail list when I complained that Mail
was opened and not Thunderbird when sending out an attachment (which works BTW.)

James M.

I assume you are referring to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287345. 

This would explain why the open -a variant does not work with thunderbird, but I
still would like to evaluate this further just to be sure. Also: the variant of
choosing thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbirdthunderbird launch script
directly should still work, as this does not go through open -a.

ericb->obr

What is the current status ? Maybe we should test : the bug is probably fixed ?

I just checked again with Thunderbird 1.5.0.4: it still does not support attaching documents via "open -a", 
which https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287345 is about, and also thunderbird-bin seems 
not to support the "-remote" switch:(  

So even if the user would fiddle through the path to thunderbird-bin, the document only gets attached 
when thunderbird is not already running.

=> Thunderbird problem, closing as INVALID.

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Reopening Issue and Will keep track because this has become a topic of
discussion on the users@openoffice.org mailing list.

Assigning issue to myself as issue as one for QA team to see if Thunderbird mail
resolved this problem.  This problem may also affect other UNIX operating systems. 
James McKenzie

AQssigning self as QA.  This problem may also affect other UNIX/Linux
combinations.  With 2.0.4 a Thunderbird window is brought up if the Email
application is set to /Applications/Thunderbird.app but no attachment is added
to the outgoing message.  The default of Mail works as designed and can be used
as an outbound mailer in the interim.
This is not an Invalid issue, but needs to be tracked until the Mozilla team
fixes it.

@obrmac:
I just looked at how Mozilla type mailers are invoked under other UNIX/Linux
platforms and we may have to switch to the same method to perform this function.
More to come.

James McKenzie

Last time I checked, forwarding the argument from a 2nd instance of Thunderbird to an already running 
instance did not work for the native Thunderbird port as it does for the X11 port. Having to quit 
Thunderbird to be able to use "Send document as e-mail" seemed not acceptable to me. Let me know if 
this changed.

As stated in http://porting.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=mac&msgNo=3019, I think the most 
promising approach for this issue is to completly switch to apple script for OS X. I hope the links stated 
there are still valid.

Unfortunatly I am not an apple script expert, but I could help changing the call to the senddoc shell 
script to some apple script. Maybe it is even possible to detect the users preferred e-mail client, so that 
we could get rid of the corresponding Tools=>Options=>Internet=>E-Mail in OpenOffice.org (as it is 
on Windows). 

found an additional bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org:  316177, unable to call
Thunderbird with -compose with attachment.  This is fixed in the beta cycle for
Thunderbird 2.  This may fix the problem with calling Thunderbird with /usr/open
-a.  Will try to get the beta and test....
James McKenzie

difficult to solve.

@Mox:
Yes it is difficult to solve when the program's producer does not follow
standards. Thunderbird does not respond properly to /usr/open -a in its present
version.
James McKenzie

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