sending images from picasa with thunderbird

May 8th, 2008

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Using thunderbird to sending images from picasa does not work per default. A little script is needed.

1. Create this file

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  1. /opt/picasa/bin/picasa-hook-email.sh

2. paste this code into the file and store it

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  1. #!/bin/bash
  2.  
  3. # Thunderbird may fail on some systems because of Picasa's
  4. $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  5. unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  7. # Find the Thunderbird executable
  8. THUNDERBIRD=$(which icedove 2> /dev/null)
  9. if [ -z "$THUNDERBIRD" ] ; then
  10.     THUNDERBIRD=$(which thunderbird 2> /dev/null)
  11. fi
  12. if [ -z "$THUNDERBIRD" ] ; then
  13.     exit 1
  14. fi
  16. ARG=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/^mailto:?//' | sed 's/%/%25/g' | sed 's/,/%2C/g')
  17. CONTENT=$(echo "$ARG" | sed 's/\&attach=.*//' | sed 's/\&/,/g')
  18. ATTACH=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/\&attach=/\n\nfile:\/\//g' |awk '/^file:/ { printf "%s,",$0 }')
  19.  
  20. NEWARG="${CONTENT},attachment='${ATTACH}'"
  21.  
  22. echo "$ARG"> /tmp/xpicasa.tmp
  23.  
  24. "$THUNDERBIRD" -compose "$NEWARG"

3. give this script execution permission

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  1. chmod 755 /opt/picasa/bin/picasa-hook-email.sh

4. and restart firefox


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4 Responses to “sending images from picasa with thunderbird”

  1. Allen Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    I have applied this to my system as indicated and it still doesn’t work. It works OK with Gmail but not Thunderbird.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks

    Allen

  2. moro Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    Hi Allen.

    I justed fixed an error in the script shown on this page. Please try again with the new version and let me know if the error persists.

  3. alleyoopster Says:
    August 30th, 2009 at 11:18 am

    thanks this it works great in Debian lenny

  4. moro Says:
    August 31st, 2009 at 1:44 am

    And in squeeze as this is the release I am using :)

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