If you want to send an E-Mail quickly per Mozilla Thunderbird in Nautilus like the Send To Feature you have to write a little script. (I found a .deb for replacing Evolution with Thunderbird, but it did not work. Instead it killed the whole feature. At the end you will get a menu like the one in the screenshot on the right.
- Because I do not need Evolution in Nautilus I removed the nautilus-sento app. To do this execute the following:
sudo apt-get remove nautilus-sendto. - Create a file in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts named sendto.
- Make it executable with chmod a+x sendto
- Paste the following one-liner into the file and save it
thunderbird -compose attachment="file://$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS"
Note: If you have Thunderbird 1.5 (or minor?) you must replace “thunderbird” with “mozilla-thunderbird”. - Restart Nautilus with
killall nautilus
Now you can right click on a file and select Scripts -> sendto to send a file as an attachment in Thunderbird.
For more scripts you can goto Nautilus File Manager Scripts.
Thanks, works great. Only problem was getting the full one line text string … it got truncated when I tried to copy it a couple of times … I’m viewing with thunderbird on ubuntu linux which might be the problem, might be better to include it as regular text rather than the html or whaterver it is?
Thanks again.
J
@Jim
I don’t know how to get it in one line. I only used the code-tag to highlight it.
I am getting and error message when trying to send an attachment this way.
Message reads:
Sending of message failed.
Unable to open the temporary file /home/myname/data/filename.txt
Check your ‘Temporary Directory’ setting.
The file shows up in the attachments box of the compose dialog and the path to the file is correct.
Re-attaching the file using the GUI provisions allows it to work.
Got a clue?
Alex
@Alex Seems to be a thunderbird-problem…
For Windows this trick seems to work:
Maybe it works for you if you empty /tmp and ~/.Trash ?
ataub2qf,
I did not know that Nautilus ran on Windows?
When was that release made?
Can’t empty /tmp while the system is running.
I’m having the same issue with the attachments (using Linux).
Empty /tmp is not an option.
Any idea?
I am having this same temp file problem. Is there a solution for this? This thread just seems to stop.
Hmm on Feisty it works with nautilus-sendto:
Just click on the file you want to send with the right mouse button and select >Send to<, then choose Thunderbird as “Send as”
To solve the temporary directory problem, simply get rid of the quotation mark.
i.e. thunderbird -compose attachment=file://$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS
It works for me