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davesteele / gnome-gmail

Integrate GMail into the Linux Desktop
https://davesteele.github.io/gnome-gmail/
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Subject starting with "#" gets sent as blank #71

Closed CharlieFehnel closed 6 years ago

CharlieFehnel commented 6 years ago

I use gnome-gmail in a bash shell script to send a test email for an application that I am writing. I wanted to use a "#" as the first character in the Subject to invoke some special processing. When I sent an email with the Subject field starting with a "#", the email that was sent had a BLANK Subject field.

I am using version 2.5.4-3 on Ubuntu MATE 18.04.

davesteele commented 6 years ago

I use gnome-gmail in a bash shell script

The '#' is a special character in bash. Quote or escape it.

CharlieFehnel commented 6 years ago

I am disappointed in how quickly you dismissed my problem as a user error. I did put the '#' within double quotes when I assigned the variable that I use for the subject. Did you even bother to try to replicate my problem before your replied???

CharlieFehnel commented 6 years ago

Try this command from the command line in a terminal: gnome-gmail 'mailto:charles.fehnel@gmail.com?subject=# Testing&body=This is a test.' On my system, both the subject and the body of the email ends up BLANK.

I inserted a "print(args.mailto)" statement in /usr/share/gnome-gmail/gnomegmail.py and args.mailto contains: mailto:charles.fehnel@gmail.com?subject=# Testing&body=This is a test. So, I'd say the "#" is getting to your code and is not being handled properly by your code.

davesteele commented 6 years ago

So you did quote it - that is an important detail. That means it's not a bash comment character - it's a URI fragment delimiter. Try replacing it with "%23".

CharlieFehnel commented 6 years ago

Yes, replacing the "#" with "%23" solved the problem. That brings up the question: what other characters do I have to worry about. I assumed that since I didn't have to replace spaces with "%20" that something somewhere was taking care of those kinds of issues.

Sure wish your first reply had mentioned the "%23".

davesteele commented 6 years ago

https://www.werockyourweb.com/url-escape-characters/

davesteele commented 6 years ago

Something to consider:

You got the proper answer to your original question, given the information provided. You got the ultimate answer in less than a day. You didn't pay for the app, or the support.

and you are ... annoyed.