Re: Error with mailto:

Thanks for the feedback. I'm using gnome and I believe this is where the
problem resides.

Jean-Claude

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:17 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 12:01:33 jean-claude destruel wrote:
> > I'm using Ubuntu 8.04.
> >
> > Here is the code I'm using:
> >
> > Email: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
> > href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
> >
> > When I preview and I click on the email link, here is the error I get:
> >
> > An error occurred while loading mailto:[email protected]:
> > Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
> >  klauncher said: Error loading 'kmailservice %u'.
> >
> > I'm using Evolution and Quanta Plus 3.5.9
> >
> > This error is only happening in Quanta. When I send the email and the
> > recipient clicks on the email link, it works fine.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Quanta mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta
> 
> Perhaps the mail-client for KDE is not setup?  Probably because you are not 
> using KDE, but rather Gnome? The message you are getting is the kde launcher 
> trying to open the mail service, but not knowing which program to use.  KDE 
> applications use klauncher to do pretty much everything...
> 
> If you click a mailto: link in konqueror, does that break too?  If so, the 
> problem is as per above, otherwise, if konqueror works, then the problem might 
> be with Quanta itself.
> 
> If the problem is with kde in general, then you can configure your default mail 
> program for kde within the kde settings (systemsettings is the application 
> command line).  Under the section, default applications, choose your email 
> client - evolution, and away you go... 
>