I am trying to get a message URI so I can reference it another app
Before I recently (& reluctantly) upgraded to TB 140.8.1esr, I used to be able to paste the following in the Error Console to get a URI for an email message (or template) that I wanted to access from my calendaring app (EccoPro -- yeah, I know, one of those "from my dying hands" things, but it has never been equaled much less surpassed, just choked in the cradle by MS Office).
var hdr = gFolderDisplay.selectedMessage; alert(hdr.folder.getUriForMsg(hdr));
I would highlight the message I wanted to use, hit Shft-Ctrl -J, and paste that in the console.
I would get a notice with something like this which I could copy
"mailbox-message://nobody@Local%20Folders/Templates#10"
I could then put a clickable link in my calendaring app to run
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -mail "mailbox-message://nobody@Local%20Folders/Templates#10"
That message would open. Then I could hit Ctrl-E to edit it, paste as needed, and send .
This worked very well. I did not come up with it. I struck gold with Google and just copied it. With something similar to AutoHotKey I was able to automate it.
Now those URI codes no longer launch at all, and I cannot get new ones because when I paste
var hdr = gFolderDisplay.selectedMessage; alert(hdr.folder.getUriForMsg(hdr));
into Error Console I get
Uncaught ReferenceError: gFolderDisplay is not defined <anonymous> debugger eval code:1 getEvalResult resource://devtools/server/actors/webconsole/eval-with-debugger.js:306 evalWithDebugger resource://devtools/server/actors/webconsole/eval-with-debugger.js:218 evaluateJS resource://devtools/server/actors/webconsole.js:895 evaluateJSAsync resource://devtools/server/actors/webconsole.js:788 makeInfallible resource://devtools/shared/ThreadSafeDevToolsUtils.js:103
If I had known what I was doing in the first place, I might be able to adapt to this version of Thunderbird. Something obviously changed in how the Error Console operates or something.
Does anyone know anything about what command could generate a message URI so I could open it from another app using the command line?
-Chris, the Reluctant Hoosier
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Thanks, Ed. I had looked at thunderlink but I don't think I can open a thunderlink with a command line argument. I think it involves touching the dreaded mouse -- or touchypad in my case.
I was able to add a command line argument with my previous solution. After poking around with message ID and taking advantage of Copy Message ID add-on, I was able to run this using Windows-R
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" mid:"03a1a960-3e37-aa0d-a58e-b685ee279db7@medicaidguide.com"
which should work in my 32-bit EccoPro program (from the days when programs were programs and apps were -- well, unknown!) But it doesn't yet.
Problem is it is really really really really really slow. Too slow to bother really, unless I am getting up to get more coffee or pee or truthfully both.
I think it might be some of JScript problem that somehow changed in Tbird, but that is only an uneducated guess.
Surely there is still some way find the URI of a message.
Try mozillaZine TB Support - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39). There is someone there who most likely can figure out what 'ar hdr = gFolderDisplay.selectedMessage; alert(hdr.folder.getUriForMsg(hdr));' got changed to.
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