[Users] Replying to some links in an e-mail opens KMail rather than Claws-Mail

»Q« boxcars at gmx.net
Wed Jul 20 21:00:54 CEST 2016


On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:57:43 +0200
Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:33:20 -0400
> Gil Weber <gilweber at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> > Note also that in these problematic e-mails if I hover over the
> > person's name, right click, and select "Open in Viewer" then
> > Claws-Mail opens. But if I hover, right click, and select "Open in
> > Browser" then K-Mail opens.  
> 
> Looks like I can reproduce it - it happens with mailto: links opened
> via Fancy. Fancy seems to open the links using xdg-open program, and
> that yields following output when run manually in a shell:
> 
> kf5.kio.core: "preferred service for x-scheme-handler/mailto" "kmail2"
> 
> I have no idea where kf5.kio.core gets that "preferred service" from.
> My default mail client is set to claws-mail in System Settings.

If 

$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/mailto

returns kmail2, it may help to try to change it with xdg-settings.  I'd
rather not give syntax for xdg-settings -- you're better off dealing
with its man page than with me, heh.





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