Adding several attachments to thunderbird (from command line)

Question

I try to create a new message with several attachments via command line, but this does not work:

thunderbird -compose "attachment='/etc/mtab',attachment='/etc/fstab'"

Only the first file gets attached. The second is missing.

What is wrong with the above command line?

PS: I tried xdg-email first, but this fails. See How to open the user's preferred mail application on Linux?

Omnivore

Answer 1

the command must be specified as

thunderbird -compose "attachment='/etc/mtab,/etc/fstab'"

I have tried under windows.

Toulouse

I tried it under linux, it works too. Note however that the attachment must be written with its absolute path. – Cavil

Note that if you call this from python, you have to replace the comma by %2C import os command = f'thunderbird -compose to="{receiver}",subject="{subject}",body="{body_text}",attachment="{file_path1}%2C{file_path2}"' os.system(command) – Slackjawed

Answer 2

Another way to attach several files:

thunderbird.exe -compose to="[email protected]" ,subject="SubjectText" ,body="bodytext" ,attachment='D:\File.txt,D:\File2.txt'

Sentimentality

This is the same as the accepted answer that has been on the site for well over a year? – Cutanddried

Thank you. This answer was helpful to understand how to set the To and Subject fields. – Henryk