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Intelligent script to start Thunderbird
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disciple

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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
PostPosted: Sat 15 Mar 2008, 23:28    Post subject:  Intelligent script to start Thunderbird  
Intelligent script to start Thunderbird - assuming you have thunderbird.

Save as /usr/local/thunderbird or something, and make sure it is lauching Thunderbird from the place it actually is (e.g. you might have it installed in /usr/local/lib/thunderbird)

It has a splash screen.
If you send mailto: links to it, it deals with them correctly, if you send any of the -something arguments to it, then it deals with them, if you don't send any arguments, it just opens thunderbird, otherwise it composes a message, with everything you sent to it as attachments.

Intended for use with a plain roxapp like the one I am about to update here, although you don't NEED the roxapp.
Uncomment the gxmessage line if you prefer it to xmessage (I don't but I'm strange).

I tried playing around, trying to get the splash screen to run whenever:
-thunderbird isn't already running
-a compose window is already open but nothing else
-we are opening a compose window, regardless of what is already open
as it always takes a while to open in these situations, but I don't think it is possible to get the logic complete.

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# Splash Screen Duration
DISPLAY_TIME=4

# Show Splash if Thunderbird is not already running
if [ "`ps | grep --extended-regexp 'thunderbird\-bin'`" = "" ]
then
 #if which gxmessage > /dev/null
 #then
 # gxmessage -timeout $DISPLAY_TIME -buttons "" -bg "#d0ffd0" -center -title "Thunderbird" "
 # Thunderbird is starting" &
 #else
  xmessage -timeout $DISPLAY_TIME -buttons "" -bg "#d0ffd0" -center -fn "10x20" -title "Thunderbird" " Thunderbird is starting " &
 #fi
fi

# Compose with attachments
if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
 if [ "$1" != "-mail" ]; then
  if [ "$1" != "-compose" ]; then
   if [ "$1" != "-news" ]; then
    if [ "$1" != "-addressbook" ]; then
     if [ "$1" != "-options" ]; then
      if [ "`echo "$1" |head -c 7`" != "mailto:" ]; then
       for i in "$@"
        do attachments="$attachments,file:///$i"
        done
       exec /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird -compose "attachment='$attachments'"
      fi
     fi
    fi
   fi
  fi
 fi
fi

# Start Thunderbird
exec /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird "$@"


I suspect it needs to be fixed for links to news channels or whatever they are too, but I don't use any, so complain if you want that fixed.
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