xdg-email prepends three slashes (///) with Evolution

[Muelli]

When I execute

xdg-email foo@bar

I expect Evolution to pop up with the address foo@bar filled out.

I do get ///foo@bar though. See attached screenshot.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435453
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788043

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: xdg-utils 1.1.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Feb 12 21:48:45 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (122 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171012)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: xdg-utils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.