"gnome-open mailto:<email address hidden>" does not work with Sylpheed
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sylpheed (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
When you type "gnome-open mailto:<email address hidden>", it is simply ignored (or just launches sylpheed without compose window, if sylpheed was not running).
When I click a "mailto:<email address hidden>" link in a HTML page on Google Chrome, it activates xdg-open with the mailto: URL. xdg-open activates gnome-open (gvfs-open in some environments). My preferred mail client is set to Sylpheed and gnome-open activates sylpheed with the mailto: URL, but no "--compose" option is given.
Let us see /usr/share/
A simple workaround would be adding a wrapper command that adds "--compose" option if a URL is given.
Here is a script to avoid this issue. You may want to replace the /usr/bin/sylpheed with this script and rename the original binary to sylpheed.real so that there's no need to change the sylpheed.desktop.