Send File Attachments using Thunderbird - A better way

[biztux]

There have been many different proposed solutions to this, but for Kubuntu 16.04 upwards and Debian 8 upwards I have found this method by far the easiest to implement:

First backup the KMail sendto service

sudo -s
[FONT=monospace]cd /usr/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/
[/FONT][FONT=monospace]cp kmail_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop kmail_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop_bak
mv[/FONT][FONT=monospace] kmail_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop thunderbird[/FONT][FONT=monospace]_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop
[/FONT]

Next edit thunderbird_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop as follows:
Locate the line containing Icon=kmail and change it to Icon=thunderbird
Remove the line containing Exec=kmail --attach %F
Add the following line (Copy and paste is best):
Exec=thunderbird -compose "attachment='$(A='';for file in %F;do A=$file,$A;done;echo "$A" | sed 's/.$//')'"

That's it all done, right click on file(s) and click on Send as Email Attachment.

[GreyGeek]

From the Dolphin configuration "services" panel I downloaded KDE-Services by geobarrod. It has "send as email attachment" as one of its many services.

[biztux]

There have been many different proposed solutions to this, but for Kubuntu 16.04 upwards and Debian 8 upwards I have found this method by far the easiest to implement:

First backup the KMail sendto service

sudo -s
[FONT=monospace]cd /usr/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/
[/FONT][FONT=monospace]cp kmail_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop kmail_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop_bak
mv[/FONT][FONT=monospace] kmail_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop thunderbird[/FONT][FONT=monospace]_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop
[/FONT]

Next edit thunderbird_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop as follows:
Locate the line containing Icon=kmail and change it to Icon=thunderbird
Remove the line containing Exec=kmail --attach %F
Add the following line (Copy and paste is best):
Exec=thunderbird -compose "attachment='$(A='';for file in %F;do A=$file,$A;done;echo "$A" | sed 's/.$//')'"

That's it all done, right click on file(s) and click on Send as Email Attachment.

I tried KDE-Services, and some of the other similar packages, the method above works exactly as expected, that is why I posted it in the first place.