Qubes Thunderbird addon?

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So the posts I was able to find seemed to be rather dated, or suggested a rather complicated option so I am asking hoping there is an answer about an updated addon?

I previously used an addon but that was years ago; I recently noticed on the minimal templates doc that one can install thunderbird-qubes so I did but when I opened thunderbird I got:

qubes_attachment
qubes_attachment817×492 37.2 KB

Is this an old addon issue, thunderbird issue, and more importantly is there a way to resolve this and or and streamline opening attachments and links in DVMs?

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It should be possible to prepare something akin to this.

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See this issue (including the comments) for everything you need to know (including solutions that obviate the need for the extension, IMHO):

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Thanks, I actually just ended up writing a basic (understatement) script:

#!/bin/bash
qvm-open-in-dvm "$1"

then went to settings → file attachments → “use other” and selected my script. That seems to work for links.

It didn’t work for PDFs though? The dvm didn’t know how to handle the mime type/pdf, but the fed40 tmp has a pdf reader by default I would think?

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Ah thanks! That looks a bit more versatile than what I came up with, will give it a try.