Two problems with Browser handler; maybe needs two bug reports? 1. Invoke Handler has no effect. Go to Folder Properties, Mailing List tab. Preferred handler was previously set to Browser. Set address type to something with an http URL. Click Invoke Handler. Nothing happens. 2. Preferred handler changed without clicking OK. With the preferred handler previously set to KMail, go to the Mailing List tab. Change the preferred handler to Browser and try to invoke Browser handler, as above. As before, nothing hapens. Click Cancel. Go back to the Mailing List tab and observe that the preferred handler is Browser and not KMail, even though the Cancel button was clicked, not the OK button. To be honest, I'm not sure it's useful to invoke the handler from the Folder Properties dialog: it makes more sense to use the Message / Mailing-List submenu. If the Invoke Handler button were to be removed, then I don't think it wouldn't make sense either to have a preferred handler.
1) I showed it this morning. 2) will test soon
This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present? If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.
I confirm the problems are still present in Kubuntu 16.04, which uses kmail2 version 5.1.3 (and I'm using kmail2 within kontact version 5.1.3). I see that a handler _is_ invoked if the URI scheme is mailto. Further, the kmail handler is invoked only if the email address is at the top of the list of URIs; if a URL is at the top, nothing happens when Invoke Handler is clicked. Further still, the "Preferred handler" setting is ignored; if it's set to Browser, and an email address is at the top of the list of URIs, nevertheless clicking Invoke Handler brings up a kmail2 composer window. I would expect that if the preferred handler is set to Browser, then clicking Invoke Handler opens the browser wherever the URL is in the list (assuming there is a URL in the list, of course). And similarly for preferred handler = KMail.
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In Folder Properties, Mailing List tab with Preferred handler = Browser, "Invoke Handler" button is ignored with a URL in the "URL for mailing list processing" field. Using Kubuntu 22.10, KMail 5.21.1 (22.08.1). Updating Version and Status fields.