From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 12 07:46:39 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E43028D for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 07:46:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ws@au.dyndns.ws) Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [IPv6:2001:44b8:8060:ff02:300:1:6:6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9315F1E for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 07:46:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ppp103-111.static.internode.on.net (HELO lillith-iv.ovirt.dyndns.ws) ([150.101.103.111]) by ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 12 May 2013 17:16:37 +0930 X-Envelope-From: ws@au.dyndns.ws X-Envelope-To: Received: from [172.17.17.136] (ws@predator-ii.buffyverse [172.17.17.136]) by lillith-iv.ovirt.dyndns.ws (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r4C7kR8t047700 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 17:16:28 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from ws@au.dyndns.ws) Subject: Gnome "Preferred Application" for email is set to Evolution but "mailto" links launch Opera From: Wayne Sierke To: gnome Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ASCII" Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 17:15:40 +0930 Message-ID: <1368344740.97478.13.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (lillith-iv.ovirt.dyndns.ws [172.17.17.142]); Sun, 12 May 2013 17:16:28 +0930 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 172.17.17.142 X-Scanned-By: SpamAssassin 3.003002(2011-06-06) X-Scanned-By: ClamAV X-Spam-Score: -2.9 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 07:46:39 -0000 Hi, I'm using Gnome 2.32.1 on 9.1-RELEASE amd64 with ports up to date. In Gnome's "System->Preferences->Preferred Applications" the "Mail Reader" is selected to "Evolution Mail Reader" (the other available application is "Thunderbird" but the same problem applies when TB is selected). However every "mailto" link results in Opera (browser) being launched. Opera is configured to use the "System default" for "mailto" but looking in Opera's preferences the "mailto" handler entry is present but the "program" is blank. The result being that "mailto" links cannot be used. This includes clicking an email "link" within Evolution itself - even in a message header. Running /usr/local/bin/xdg-email shows that it is correctly selecting Gnome to handle the "mailto" but Gnome seems to be completely ignoring that the "Preferred Application" is set to Evolution and instead launching Opera. This system has a long history of upgrades so perhaps there is some left-over cruft that is upsetting things. In any case, can anyone suggest how to rectify this? Thanks, Wayne