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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Build Identifier: Just installed 0.8 and went back to 0.7.3. in 15 minutes. It looked cool otherwise but the -remote option was not working for me. I use a wrapper to start Thunderbird so it works with mailto-clicks from Firefox without bringing profile manager. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Thunderbird 0.8. so you have a running thunderbird window 2. From command line try thunderbird -remote "mailto()" and similar commands Actual Results: Message "Error: No running window found" Expected Results: Bring up a new compose window in the running Thunderbird instance

*** Bug 259345 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I am the original submitter and would like to inform that I have found work arounds by looking little bit more closely to other existing bugs. Here is summary of what I have found with thunderbird 0.8: 1) /path_to_thunderbird/thunderbird -remote "mailto()" brings the error 2) /path_to_thunderbird/thunderbird -a Thunderbird -remote "mailto()" works perfectly like it is supposed to 3) /path_to_thunderbird/mozilla-xremote-client -a Thunderbird "mailto()" works perfectly. Given 2) and 3) I am now happily using 0.8.

*** Bug 259897 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Confirming based on dupes, to make the bug easier to find in a default search. I don't run Linux and so can't really test this.

#1 Doesn't work because of Bug 177996 (I think). #2 and #3 are about the same and that bug was Bug 247754, which was duped to Bug 244060 (which isn't fixed so Bug 247754 should actually be reopened). So, I guess this bug should be marked dupe to Bug 247754.

I cannot get it to work with mozilla-thunderbird -a Thunderbird -remote "mailto(hej@hej)". Tried with the explecit path to mozilla-thunderbird-bin too. On Debian unstable (AMD64). I get: $ mozilla-thunderbird -a Thunderbird -remote "mailto()" selected locale: en-US Error: No running window found

on debian, use /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird-xremote-client instead of manually trying to use the -remote switch.

*** Bug 263516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

thunderbird-remote is working just fine nowadays... (though I'm not sure all of the options mentioned in the comments are still valid) ->wfm (though there may be a duplicate)

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