#985919 thunderbird: emails print only to default printer, not other printers or files, using Print dialog

Package:
thunderbird
Source:
thunderbird
Description:
mail/news client with RSS, chat and integrated spam filter support
Submitter:
Date:
2021-03-26 02:33:02 UTC
Severity:
important
#985919#5
Date:
2021-03-26 02:29:06 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

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1. When printing emails using the File->Print menu option, even though
one can select other printers or choose to print to a file, in fact the
print job ***always*** goes to the default printer.

2. I verified that printing to other printers or to a file, using the
same system dialog as thunderbird, works with other mail programs
(balsa) and with other non-mail programs. Printing to non-default
printers or files fails only with thunderbird.

3. However, in thunderbird, if one ***first*** selects File->Print
Preview and from there chooses to print to a non-default printer or
file, that does work and is the current work-around.

This is an important bug when the default printer is a real one and one
ends up using a lot of paper by error or by forgetting the work-around
above.

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