mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

[Kevin Martin]

On 04/04/13 20:36, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/05/13 09:19, Steven Stern wrote:
>> It is.  It's got to be something to do with Chrome, but I can't find any
>> setting there.
> 
> There are no settings for this in chrome.  It works fine here....  It is always a puzzle to find out what controls this and if it matters what DE is being used.  Anyway....  One more thing to check....
> 
> Everything works for me fine using KDE.
> 
> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler mailto
> handler is thunderbird
> /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop
> 
> And in /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop
> 
> Exec=thunderbird %u
> 
Check your /usr/bin/xdg-email for a section called run_thunderbird and see if you have a line that says:

MAILTO=$(echo "$2" | sed 's/^mailto://')

If not, you probably need to update xdg-utils.

Kevin