Mailing photos from Picasa 3 in Thunderbird 3

June 2, 2010 · General · Email This Post

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Currently if you want to mail photos from Picasa 3 in Thunderbird 3 fails due to this bug .

Workaround for this problem

Open terminal and run the following commands

$ cd /usr/bin

$gksudo gedit picasa-hook-email.sh

Copy and paste the script below into the editor, and edit (if neccessary) the “PATH_TO_TBIRD=” line to the command that normally launches Thunderbird. (If you have a desktop launcher for Thunderbird then open it with kwrite and look at the “exec=” line.)

#!/bin/sh
# picasa-hook-email.sh
# Edit the next line
PATH_TO_TBIRD=thunderbird
emailstr=$(echo “$1″|sed ‘s/mailto:?/to=,/’|\
sed ‘s/&cc=/,cc=/’|sed ‘s/&bcc=/,bcc=/’|sed “s/&body=/,body=\’/”|\
sed “s/&attach=/\’,attachment=\’file:\/\//”|sed ‘s/&attach=/,file:\/\//g’)”‘”
$PATH_TO_TBIRD -compose “$emailstr”
#End of picasa-hook-email.sh

Save and exit the file

Or You can download this script from here

Now you need to change the permissions to the script

$chmod 755 /usr/bin/picasa-hook-email.sh

Now you need to close your thunderbird and open it again you should be able to mail photos from Picasa 3 in Thunderbird 3

Thanks to Josh Stump for this tip

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10 Comments to “Mailing photos from Picasa 3 in Thunderbird 3”

1. Frank Henderson says:

   June 2, 2010 at 3:49 pm

   I haven’t had this problem…yet.

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2. George says:

   June 3, 2010 at 1:30 am

   I created the script and have it working, but shouldn’t the picture I want to send be already attached in the e-mail?

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3. Mike says:

   July 13, 2010 at 12:37 am

   Well, this did allow a compose message window to open, but it didn’t attach the pic. Thoughts?

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4. Ignacio Garcia says:

   August 6, 2010 at 12:23 pm

   It does not work at all…

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5. hangman says:

   August 13, 2010 at 5:00 pm

   Seems doesn’t work in Picasa 3.6

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6. Onyx says:

   August 22, 2010 at 4:05 am

   Works on Picasa 3.8 running on Mint 9. Thanks!

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7. hawk says:

   October 29, 2010 at 11:31 pm

   Neither this nor any other alleged Picasa and Thunderbird solutions have worked for me.

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8. hawk says:

   November 1, 2010 at 5:11 pm

   I apologize for the previous comment! This script works perfectly with Tbird 3.0.1.0 and Picasa 3.0.0; My mistake was to use the command in the Tbird launcher (thunderbird $u) instead of the simple “thunderbird” in the first line. Thanks!

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9. eelco says:

   September 14, 2011 at 8:40 am

   Can someone copy the working scriptfile and post it here. I can´t seem to get it working, using Picasa 3.8 and Mint 9,

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10. eelco says:

    September 16, 2011 at 8:16 am

    OK one step further, Thunderbird opens, but there is no attachment no. Any clues?

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