Bug#885346: clicking mailto link in chromium silently sends empty mail

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 18:37:59 -0800 Ryan Tandy <r...@nardis.ca> wrote:
> I am not sure this is neomutt's fault or chromium's. It looks like the 
> root cause is xdg-open not respecting Terminal=true in neomutt.desktop. 
> There is an existing bug about that:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92514
> 
> Wrapping the neomutt command in a terminal emulator works as a 
> workaround for this specific bug, but is a bad fix in general since it 
> would create a second, redundant terminal if launched from anything 
> other than xdg-open.
> 
> I thought mailto: links used to work for me in chromium... I am not sure 
> if something changed (probably in chromium) or if I imagined that.
> 
> BTW the reproducer can be even shorter: just enter 
> mailto:some...@example.com in the address bar.
> 
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