Bug#710702: kmail: Using KMail as default Email Provider is not working under Gnome
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 20:20 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Saturday, 2013-06-01, Eike von Seggern wrote:
>> Package: kmail
>> Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I've selected KMailservice as Email program in the Gnome control center.
>
> Ah, misconception on program name :)
> kmailservice is not "KMail service" but "K mailservice" (as in KDE
> mailservice).
>
> Basically a helper (part of kdelibs5-plugins) that checks which e-mail program
> is configured by the user and then calls it.
> Since you are in a non-KDE workspace environment you might want to configure
> KMail directly.
So this should be forwarded to kdelibs5-plugins? Adding the full path
to the executable in the .desktop file resolved it.
More background: I've updated to Wheezy and changed the DE from KDE to
Gnome but wanted to keep KMail as email program.
Regards
Eike
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