Version: Git (master) (using KDE 4.6.3) OS: Linux I use kontact every time. mailto: links from browser and other apps try to start kmail with arguments, like this: /usr/bin/kmail mailto:user@example.com?subject=Message So, if I use kmail, this works normally. But if I use kontact and have it loaded, I got the message: Kontact seems to be running on another display on this machine. Running Kontact and KMail at the same time can cause the loss of mail. You should not start KMail unless you are sure that Kontact is not running. http://i.imgur.com/E9sny.png kontact didn't accepts any cli arguments, so I don't know how to solve this problem. Will be good that kmail check the command line and if they have arguments, connects to the kontact and do the action instead of showing this window. Reproducible: Always
Same issue here. KDE SC 4.6.4 KDEPIM 4.6.0 KMail 2.1.0
I can confirm this after recent upgrade to KMail 2. Not having mailto: links working is of course not a problem as such for me, but I think it is an important bug that should be fixed soon. If you want to convince your family members to switch to KDE, these things have to work.
Fixed 5 days ago. Also see bug 265491