attachment=’”file:///D:\foo\file1″,”file///D:\foo\file2″‘

In Linux Unicode & Mac (always), GCC generates (copied from the debugger)
attachment=L”‘\”file:///home/foo/file1\”,\”file:///home/foo/file2\”‘”

and this fails.

Adding one more slash does not help
attachment=’\”file:////home/foo/file1\”,\”file:////home/foo/file2\”‘

Any ideas ?

When I did this I didn’t find a option to the command to go ahead and send the mail. There are really better tools for this anyways, for example, xmail.

But if you really want to do this, you maybe could use this very ugly hack after installing xdotool:

thunderbird –compose “to=’foo@foo.com’,subject=’nice tip’,body=’Check out this neat command line tip’” &; sleep 2; xdotool key ‘ctrl+Return’

This will just send the keyboard shortcut to the currently selected window 2 seconds after running the thunderbird command. Also note, the thunderbird command is put in the background as a job with the ampersand.

-Kyle