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       Status: Unknown => Invalid

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Title:
  Evolution, Thunderbird and Firefox should follow \\smb links

Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool:
  New
Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Won't Fix
Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Invalid
Status in evolution package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in firefox-3.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Emails from windows users in the corporate setting often include links
  to files on windows servers. Linux users should be able to operate
  transparently in this space. So in outlook if I drag in a link to a
  file in an email you get a hyber link like this:
  "\\servername\path\to\file\file.ext". When receiving such an email I
  have to edit to "smb://servername/path/to/file/" and paste into
  nautilus or konquorer. The client (Evolution, Thunderbird and Firefox)
  should follow those links transparently to the user (i.e. click/open).

  On the composing side if I drag in a link from nautilus I get
  "smb://servername/path/to/file/file.ext" that should get changed to
  "\\servername\path\to\file\file.ext" so as to be universally usable.

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