DigiKam Email with Thunderbird

[Chris Elverson]

Hi all, I recently switched from Picasa to digiKam and am loving it so far. I am having one issue, however. When I use the option Export > Email Images... > Select Thunderbird and click Send, I get the following error message: "Failed to start Thunderbird program. Check your system."

I am using the following software versions:

digiKam 5.1.0 using KDE 5.24.0

Mac OS X 10.11.6

Thunderbird 45.3.0

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Chris 

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Thunderbird program is well installed on your system ? The program is well visible in PATH user to run properly ?

Gilles Caulier

2016-09-02 3:50 GMT+02:00 Chris Elverson <[hidden email]>:

Hi all, I recently switched from Picasa to digiKam and am loving it so far. I am having one issue, however. When I use the option Export > Email Images... > Select Thunderbird and click Send, I get the following error message: "Failed to start Thunderbird program. Check your system."

I am using the following software versions:

digiKam 5.1.0 using KDE 5.24.0

Mac OS X 10.11.6

Thunderbird 45.3.0

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Chris 

[Stuart T Rogers]

In my experience you need Thunderbird to be the default mail program and
not just set in Thunderbird but make sure that it is set as default in
KDE as well. As I dont use Mac I dont know how you would check that,
however in Linux KDE SystemSettings5 has an toption to set default programs.

Stuart

On 02/09/16 02:50, Chris Elverson wrote:

> Hi all, I recently switched from Picasa to digiKam and am loving it so
> far. I am having one issue, however. When I use the option Export >
> Email Images... > Select Thunderbird and click Send, I get the following
> error message: "Failed to start Thunderbird program. Check your system."
>
> I am using the following software versions:
> digiKam 5.1.0 using KDE 5.24.0
> Mac OS X 10.11.6
> Thunderbird 45.3.0
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Oh, you use OSX... Interresting.

Which digiKam version exactly ? In 5.x we use mailto::/ url to handle default mail agent set in OSX (not KDE).

Gilles Caulier

2016-09-02 9:01 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <[hidden email]>:

In my experience you need Thunderbird to be the default mail program and not just set in Thunderbird but make sure that it is set as default in KDE as well. As I dont use Mac I dont know how you would check that, however in Linux KDE SystemSettings5 has an toption to set default programs.

Stuart

On 02/09/16 02:50, Chris Elverson wrote:

Hi all, I recently switched from Picasa to digiKam and am loving it so
far. I am having one issue, however. When I use the option Export >
Email Images... > Select Thunderbird and click Send, I get the following
error message: "Failed to start Thunderbird program. Check your system."

I am using the following software versions:
digiKam 5.1.0 using KDE 5.24.0
Mac OS X 10.11.6
Thunderbird 45.3.0

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris

--
Website: http://www.stella-maris.org.uk
or:      http://www.broadstairs.org