[kdepim-users] "mailing list/post new message" starts up Thunderbird?!?!

[Anders Lund]

Lørdag den 3. januar 2015 11:06:49 skrev René J.V. Bertin:
> On Saturday January 03 2015 07:41:02 O. Sinclair wrote:
> >>> On Friday January 02 2015 10:49:57 Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>>> check your mimetype association for mimetype: x-scheme-handler/mailto
> >>> 
> >>> That would make sense, thanks - but how does one do this on Linux?
> >> 
> >> Using KDE, look in systemsettings, in the file associations module.
> 
> There is no x-scheme-handler category, and no mailto item/type anywhere
> according to that tool.
> >> Firefox might have information of its own, look in the configuration
> >> dialog. I think I rememeber having to delete an odd file created by
> >> firefox or thunderbird once, but that was long ago - hopefully using the
> >> KDE systemsettings should be sufficient in the present time :)
> 
> Why would kmail look at Firefox's settings? I don't even use that browser
> ... Configuring it to use kmail didn't have any effect, as I'd expect :(

Right. A hidden evil file somewhere in the xdg search path - maybe ~/.local or 
~/.config? As earlier said, I experienced somthing similar some time ago, after 
having used thunderbird for a short while.

Hope you find it!

Kindly,
Anders

> This is all the more saddening given that Opera (12) which is configured to
> open mailto URIs with "the default application" finds kmail as it 
should.after 
> 
> R.
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