CLI not taking URL arguments after the first

[Modo11]

📣 Notification Service(s) Impacted

Apprise CLI

🐞 Describe the bug

Not sure if I'm missing something, but the cli doesn't seem to read URL arguments after the first (denoted by ?)
In verbose it says: "E-Mail URL mailtos://hotmail.com?to=workt1500@hotmail.com unpacked as:", but that's not the complete url I wrote.

This particular command fails because of "Invalid --from-- email specified", but I think it just didn't read it.

💡 Screenshots and Logs

[caronc]

You're not providing the user:password@hotmail.com.

If my Hotmail Address was user@hotmail.com and my password was password to access it. My Apprise URL would read: mailto://user:password@hotmail.com

By default, that will email yourself.

But you can optionally send it to someone else by updating the URL to read:
mailto://user:password@hotmail.com/someone.else@example.com

[Modo11]

Hello, thank you for your answer and sorry for my late response, I had a complication with my PC.

Yes, that was my mistake, with the user:password@hotmail it does send the email.
However I think the part that it doesn't seem to read URL arguments still stands.

Here I try two URLs, they are the same with just the "name" and "to" arguments switched. The results are on screenshots below. When the to argument is first, the email is correctly sent to @yahoo email, but without the specified name.

When I switch them and name argument is first, the email is sent to the default @Hotmail, not the @yahoo that's in the argument. This time the name works

[caronc]

Hi, in both cases, (swaping the to with name, i get the same results (and parse the name correctly). I created some Test cases (see link above) and verify. Maybe i'm not correctly reproducing your issue?

[caronc]

Ahh! It took some time, but i finally found out what you're doing wrong.

Your URL on the command line isn't in quotes....

So the & in the URL is being interpreted by your Shell (CLI) and running into the background.

Try the command:

# The key here is "quote" the URL so the the & doesn't truncate your request early (launching
# what was written before it in the background). ... You can see this happening in you
# screenshot where it writes:
#  [1] 6034
# 
# Below has the URL quoted:
apprise -vvvv --body="My Message" \
   "mailto://workt1500:password@hotmail.com?name=test%20name&to=workt1500@yahoo.com"

[caronc]

I still leveraged the issue you brought forth and allowed people to over-ride email template defaults if they chose to. So your investigation of just being a typo still amounted to some improved code! That's a positive! 🚀

[caronc]

Just as a final note, i added your situation to the Troubleshooting area for future users.

[caronc]

Closing issue. Please feel free to keep me know if you're still experiencing any issues. But this is just related to not providing quotes around the URL on the command line