Hi friends,
Using Ubuntu 14.04 and LXDE as Desktop Manager
I could not to send the scanned document to the email client (for example Thunderbird) from the useful function: file->E-mail.

I've try from another Desktop Manager and all works fine.
I checked in LXDE preferences and Thunderbird seem correctly set as default email application.

Anyone have found a similar situation and any idea? :-)
Or how is it possible to debug its behavior? I've try to run from console Simple Scan but no errors appear.

many many thanks!

Did you try launching in debug mode?

FWIW, I happened to stumble across this page (refer 'Solution for 2') which described how /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop contains
where %u is a URL reference to the file concerned which apparently might not be what Thunderbird is expecting. Changing this to
might be helpful when Thunderbird requires an absolute file path to work with. I don't know whether this will be the solution here, but it may be worth trying IMHO. AFAIU, you'll need to restart your desktop before any changes you make to the.desktop file take effect.

Thanks for your help @ferrari!

I can tell you that running simple-scan in debug mode, appear clear what it run: xdg-email --attach "path/to/name/file"
Running the same command via terminal, do not get any results.
Simply, seem that LXDE have not a preferred email app to run.
But looking into preferred-default-app, Thunderbird appears and seem correctly configured.
It's seem a Ubuntu/LXDE bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...s/+bug/1540399


Changing as you suggest Exec=thunderbird %u to Exec=thunderbird %f %u works great if you want to send by left-click mouse, but no by simple-scan.

I've open an issue on github xdg-utils-ng: https://github.com/matthewbauer/xdg-utils-ng/issues/2

many thanks!

Good to know that a bug report exists... although not much activity it would seem. I guess not many are using that feature.

I know this is an old question, but I found the same issue still active. I think the problem is that xdg-email doesn't handle --attach when using mailto: format. I use claws-mail, and enabled scan to email by adding at the start of /usr/bin/xdg-email the lines

# to fix scan to email, when xdg-email doesnt handle attachment in its mailto: form
if [ \( $# -eq 2 \) -a \( $1 = "--attach" \) -a \( -x /usr/bin/claws-mail \) ]
then exec /usr/bin/claws-mail $@
fi

Try replacing the "claws-mail" reference with "/usr/bin/thunderbird" (if that's the correct path on your system) ?