Amarok scripts identify the author and offer a link to email the author. Alas when I click it it reports an error:

Could not launch the mail client:

KDEInit could not launch 'kmail':
Could not find 'kmail' executable.

But I don't even have kmail installed so that's no surprise. I use Thunderbird.

So how can I let Amarok know this? I can't find a setting anywhere.

systemsettings -> default applications -> email client -> use a different email client ->

Thanks for the thought, but alas not that simple. Everywhere else on my system Thunderbird is understood as the default email ciient.

I'm on Linux Mint, an Ubuntu based distro and the equivalent system setting is:

system settings -> preferred applications -> mail

But I think you may be on the right track, as in Amarok us part of the KDE family and they seem rather heavily intertwined (as in my home folder has a .kde folder and a fairly rich hierarchy of stuff under that including "~/.kde/share/apps" where I see a folder for each of the KDE apps I have installed. So I'm thinking somwhere, not Amarok specific, not system wide, but KDE specific is this configuration.

If I search the content of all file sunder ~./kde for kmail I find only four files none of which alas look convincingly like where such a thing can be configured . The closes is:

~/.kde/share/config/mailtransports which contains:

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[$Version]
update_info=mailtransports.upd:initial-kmail-migration,mailtransports.upd:initial-knode-migration


which doesn't invite tinkering or look convincingly like a default mailer config, more like an update info .

the easiest solution is to run systemsettings as that what will define what email client Amarok (or any KDE apps use)

Or in ~/.kde/share/config create a file called emaildefaults
and populate with the following adding your own particulars

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[Defaults]
Profile=Default

[PROFILE_Default]
EmailAddress=
EmailClient[$e]=
FullName=
Organization=
ReplyAddr=
ServerType=
TerminalClient=false

google01103 wrote:the easiest solution is to run systemsettings as that what will define what email client Amarok (or any KDE apps use)

Excellent. I just installed the systemsettings app, and used its GUI. As suspect there are KDE wide settings that Amarok is using. A tad odd and one of the reasons I suspect Linux has not to date made greater incursions on the Windows desktop market - this endless forking of directions . I'm using MINT with Cinnamon which has a System Settings window, and I have installed a KDE System Settings now . I can cope not a problem, but not a strong point when offering Linux to my family (they wills e it as the geek system).

Thanks kindly for the lead!

Hi:
I am also having problems with a default mail client in KDE (Plasma 5, opensuse Leap). Namely, Konqueror keeps using Thunderbird as the default mail client instead of Kmail. I set Thunderbird as default in the System Settings as well as Thunderbird as default client in TB settings. All programs use Thunderbird as a mail client but Konqueror which opens Kmail every time regardless of all the settings. If Kmail is uninstalled the Konqueror presents an error message.

Hey,

I have also had mixed experiences about interactions of MIME settings between KDE and non-KDE applications, see viewtopic.php?f=305&t=131421 The xdg-mime utilities I used there are also to change the default mail application, https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/xdg-utils