Bug 425668

Summary:	Kerry always tries to use KMail to display found emails instead of thunderbird
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Forgotten User gxNgjAWAcH <forgotten_gxNgjAWAcH>
Component:	X11 Applications	Assignee:	Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P4 - Low	CC:	binner, wstephenson
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Forgotten User gxNgjAWAcH 2008-09-11 21:57:04 UTC

When I'm searching with kerry trough my emails, and it finds some messages, if I click on the found message, it tries to launch KMail to display it, and it fails.

I use thunderbird as email client, and beagle-thunderbird adding and extension to index my emails. My KDE environment is set to use thunderbird for email, and almost all applications I work with, can successfully launch/use thunderbird when I need to compose or view emails.

Can kerry be fixed to respect the KDE settings?

Using kerry-0.2.2-189.1 and beagle-0.3.7-22.1

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2009-06-07 15:07:16 UTC

Kerry actually does not launch an email client, it launches application asssociated with the file type, which is message/rfc822. After changing the association in the file associations control module it works. This is probably rather a feature than a bug.

Comment 3 Forgotten User gxNgjAWAcH 2009-06-08 15:59:33 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Kerry actually does not launch an email client, it launches application
> asssociated with the file type, which is message/rfc822. After changing the
> association in the file associations control module it works. This is probably
> rather a feature than a bug.

I tried this, and added thunderbird as handler for message/rfc822. Now it launches thunderbird, but with empty screen. It still does not open the message.

I tried to add as command options:

"-mail %u" - again blank screen
"%u" - does not open it at all

So, what is the right thing to put in the file associations settings, so thunderbird actually displays the message?

Thanks
Sunny

Comment 4 Will Stephenson 2009-12-02 16:08:42 UTC

Who is the Thunderbird maintainer?

Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2009-12-05 05:27:50 UTC

Sorry, don't know either.

Comment 6 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2013-05-30 07:29:16 UTC

This bug was missed by myself over time. Please reopen if still an issue.