mailto:-targets in xml:link XML links does not open a messenger window (the URL above is a servlet generated page which include such a link at the top). Tested with nightly build 99.4.12.

Small note: The given URL detects if the browser supports XML or not... Mozilla 4.5 gets HTML, Mozilla 5 gets XML/CSS...

Setting milestone to M6 and accepting bug.

Moving non-crasher XML bugs to M7...

Ccing Scott Putterman. Scott, I just tried clicking on a mailto link in an HTML document inside apprunner and mail did not get invoked. I am guessing that mailto link handling hasn't gone in yet. Do you know who I should assign this bug to in the mail/news team? Thanks.

Ccing Phil Peterson. Phil, I just tried clicking on a mailto link in an HTML document inside apprunner and mail did not get invoked. I am guessing that mailto link handling hasn't gone in yet. Do you know who I should assign this bug to in the mail/news team? Thanks.

Please do not forget that mailto:-links may also have options, e.g. mailto:Roland.Mainz@informatik.med.uni-giessen.de?subject=bugzilla_bug_5247 sets the "Subject:"-header of the mail. This would save another bug report :-) And please document which "options" are available, e.g. "subject". What about a "body" option to pre-set the body ?

URL dispatching is a Necko integration issue, and we don't expect to solve it before Necko lands. Mscott is the mail/news Necko integ guy, so I'm reassigning to him for M9. Roland, the 4.x product is capable of all the things you mentioned, including body, and we'll be bringing that over. cc'ing warren so he's aware of this dependency.

The problems behind this bug are the same ones behing 2652. In order to make our selves a pluggable protocol where netlib can feed us the url we need to support the channel interface which is stream oriented right now and doesn't make sense for something like a mailto url. we'll visit this with the necko team post landing.

Actually, today if you click on a mailto link, Radha has some special code in the webshell which launches the messenger compose window. (note this only works in the browser window) That's the most critical part of this bug. Roland is also suggesting some feature enchancements about what he'd like to see in mailto urls. Something like that is going to get pushed out after beta 1. So I'm setting the work for the new mailto parsing stuff to M15 which is post beta.

win32, mailto: isn't working for me at all now

*** Bug 19145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 19499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I actually decided to force url dispatching to be on for mailto urls tonight so everyone can see them work instead of those of us who are using the new uri dispatching stuff. So in tomorrow's builds, you should see mailto urls working in messenger and the browser. I also have code in their to parse out subject, body, and other fields from the mailto url in order to pre-populate the compose window with this information. Marking as fixed.

Using 12/2 build, verified fixed.

I'm still seening the mailto problem I descibed in bug 19499 on http://192.215.23.42/bt2kfull-2/ampersands.htm (try and click on the next test button). Does this mean this bug shoud be reopened? Build id: 2000021409 Linux.

I'll reopen bug 19499 then