block 581650 by 574131
tags 574131 + upstream
severity 574131 important
quit

Per Olofsson wrote:

> I suspect the culprit of this bug is xdg-email.

In fact chromium uses xdg-open, but the distinction is not so important.

> If it can't determine
> the MUA from the desktop environment (i.e. you don't run Gnome, KDE or
> Xfce) then it tries sensible-browser and hopes it can handle mailto: URLs.
> 
> As maintainer of xdg-utils, I'm not sure how to solve this bug. Is there
> a standard way to launch a MUA in Debian?

Not that I know of.  But really this is a cross-distro issue; has there
been any discussion of a standard way to register a mailto: url handler
without a desktop environment in the Portland group?

Curious,
Jonathan



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