https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455847
Bug ID: 455847
Summary: mailto link doesn't attach file for some services
Product: Skanpage
Version: unspecified
Platform: Neon Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: a.stipp...@gmx.net
Reporter: a...@al-williams.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
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When trying to send a scan, the program uses a mailto: link with a
file-attachment. It looks like some common mail setups don't honor this anymore
(especially web mail) presumably because it provides a way for someone to say
"click here" and then mail themselves some file off your system without you
noticing?
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Scan
2. Send scan via e-mail
3. Note that e-mail client pops up with no file attached
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
As a silly work around, I have my e-mail application set to a file
(/usr/local/bin/gmail-stub) that looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
CMD=`echo $1 | sed s/attachment=file:../subject=Please+attach+/`
exec xdg-open "https://mail.google.com/mail?extsrc=mailto&url=$CMD";
This works for everything normal (the sed misses everything) and if you have an
attachment you get a subject that says Please attach (file path). RFC2368 only
assures you that to/subject/body are understood
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2368 -- I hear there is no more support in
several other e-mail programs, too.
My script is not ideal, but I'm trying to think of a better way to do this for
programs like skan. For example, copy the file to the clipboard so it could be
pasted?
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