xdg-open will to the right thing. Just execute xdg-open with the mailto-URI
and it will open the configured program.
//Snaggen
2013/11/19 Dimitrios Psychogios <dpsychog...@gmail.com>
> Unfortunately, there exist a bazillion different ways in Linux to define
> how mailto: links are handled. I believe the most prevalent way to
> handle this is via xdg-mime, so check what that is configured to with:
> xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/mailto and if unset, fix it to
> whatever application you want (e.g. set to "google-chrome.desktop" if you
> want to open mailto links with your webmail). There is a competing setting
> in GConf of course for GNOME environments
> under /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command (check with either
> gconf-editor or run: gconftool-2 --get
> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command). I believe the error you're
> getting means that xdg-mime isn't configured to handle mailto: links...
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus <h...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Am Samstag, 16. November 2013, 10:34:08 schrieb David Vincent-Jones:
>> > Is anybody else seeing this message when trying to export to thunderbird
>> > email?
>> >
>> > Unable to detect the URI-scheme of
>> > "mailto:
>> ?subject=images%20exported%20from%20darktable&body=20131107%5F0013.j
>> >
>> pg%201/80%20f/5.0%2070mm%20iso%20640&attach=/home/david/.local/tmp/20131107%
>> > 5F0013.jpg".
>> >
>> > Any idea how I can trace the problem?
>>
>> Google gives me this as a next thing to find out what is happening:
>>
>> xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler mailto
>>
>> > David
>>
>> Tobias
>>
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