Bug 253965

Summary:	clicking mailto:// links in browser window fails to launch email client
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Simeon Bird <bladud>
Component:	klauncher	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	chgonzalezg, faure
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	4.5.3
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Simeon Bird 2010-10-12 13:40:28 UTC

Version:           4.5 (using KDE 4.5.2) 
OS:                Linux

Clicking a mailto:// link in a web browser, for example the one in the second paragraph of https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce
does not open kmail or any other email client. Instead it gives an error.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click a mailto link in a web browser.

Actual Results:  
"Error KIOExec" message appears: 
"Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kmailservice %u'."

Expected Results:  
A "compose" window opens in my email client of choice, with subject, reply-to, etc, filled in as required. 

Altering the first line of /usr/share/kde4/services/kmailservice.protocol 
from "exec=kmailservice %u" to "exec=kmailservice" partially fixes the problem. 
In this case, a compose window is opened, however only the address field is passed in, not the full mailto URL. 

This is a regression from 4.4, where mailto links worked fine.

Comment 1 David Faure 2010-10-12 15:28:10 UTC

Fixed in r1183578 for 4.5.3.

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2010-10-19 14:49:20 UTC

*** Bug 254655 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***