SUMMARY Invoking kmail mailto handler from the command line does nothing if akonadi is loaded. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Make sure akonadi is not run it or stop it (akonadictl stop) 2. Invoke kmail from command line: kmail -qwindowtitle KMail mailto:847613@bugs.debian.org 3. See kmail compose window appears 4. Now akonadi should be running (check akonadictl status) 5. Repeat the previous kmail command: kmail -qwindowtitle KMail mailto:847613@bugs.debian.org OBSERVED RESULT kmail compose window does not appear. The only traces in console are: QIODevice::read (QLocalSocket): device not open (repeated several times) EXPECTED RESULT kmail compose window does appear. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian sid kmail 5.9.1 KDE Frameworks 5.51.0 Qt 5.11.2 (compilado con 5.11.2) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I'm not running a full plasma desktop (temporarily). I run lxqt. Maybe related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389073
On NixOS 20.09 with KMail version 5.16.3 (20.12.3) this bug is not present. The compose window opens when running kmail -qwindowtitle KMail mailto:847613@bugs.debian.org even when kmail and akonadi were not running.
Hello: Thanks for the feedback. Reporting that I see it is working now here on: kontact 5.15.3 (20.08.3) KDE Frameworks 5.78.0 Qt 5.15.2 Closing consequently.