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Guacamole

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Thunar "Send to mail recipient"

I'm using thunar 4.16.11 and thunderbird 102.3.3 (EndeavourOS)
When I use thunar's "send to mail recipient" function, thunderbird starts, opens a new email, but no file(s) is/are attached to it.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Thunar "Send to mail recipient"

Hello and welcome.

I can verify the issue - probably best to create a bug report if you want to get it fixed natively.

As a workaround, create the folder ~/.local/share/Thunar/sendto (if it doesn't exist) and then create the following files

thunar-sendto-thunderbird.desktop file in that folder with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Name=Thunderbird
Icon=mail-send
Exec=/usr/local/bin/tbird.sh

/usr/local/bin/tbird.sh with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash

for f in $@
do
	if [ -z $str ]; then
		str=$f
	else
		str="$str, $f"
	fi
done

thunderbird --compose "attachment='$str'"

...and make it executable.

This will give you another option to send with Thunderbird. Note that you can only attach files. If you want to attach a folder, you'll need to extend the script to compress the folder and then attach the zip file - something that Thunar's sendto already does.

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