cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs

Nellis, Kenneth Kenneth.Nellis@acs-inc.com
Fri Mar 30 17:02:00 GMT 2012


From: Ken Brown 
> If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash

> prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing
> message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject.  (This

> is what happens if I type the same URL into a `Start Menu -> Run'
box.) 
>   What happens instead is that `recipient?subject=subject' shows up as

> the recipient, with the question mark replaced by something
unprintable, 
> and the subject is blank.

FWIW, WJFFM  --Ken Nellis


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