Bug#249370: gnome-control-center: cannot set mail application

[Arnaud Patard Rtp]

Sean Proctor <sproctor@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 18:05, Arnaud Patard (Rtp) wrote:
>> Could you send me the result of this command ?
>> $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto
>
> $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto
>  needs_terminal = false
>  command = evolution-1.6 %s
>  enabled = true

So, your gconf key for 'Preferred Applications Mail Reader' exists. Maybe your problem comes from the command since there's no evolution1.6 package afaik. Please, try to change that key to other value than evolution (with gconf-editor or something like that).