Cannot send email

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Hi,

I am using JabRef 5.5 in Ubuntu 21.10.
I would like to send one reference (and its pdf) by email, but it results in error creating email. I am not sure if this is an issue or something not well configured. Can anybody help?
The error I get is:
2022-04-13 11:53:18 [JavaFX Application Thread] org.jabref.gui.SendAsEMailAction.lambda$execute$0()
WARN: Error creating email: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: The MAIL action is not supported on the current platform!
at java.desktop/java.awt.Desktop.checkActionSupport(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Desktop.mail(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref@5.5.60000/org.jabref.gui.SendAsEMailAction.sendEmail(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref@5.5.60000/org.jabref.gui.util.BackgroundTask$1.call(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref@5.5.60000/org.jabref.gui.util.DefaultTaskExecutor$1.call(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref.merged.module@5.5.60000/javafx.concurrent.Task$TaskCallable.call(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2022-04-13 11:53:18 [JavaFX Application Thread] org.jabref.gui.JabRefDialogService.notify()
INFO: Error creating email

2

Cannot reproduce this on

JabRef 5.6–2022-04-11–1c782b7
Windows 10 10.0 amd64
Java 17.0.2
JavaFX 18+12

Cannot reproduce using the .deb version of JabRef 5.5
on Linux Mint 20.3 (Ubuntu based. Uses kernel 5.4).
Clicking the button opened my e-mail program (Thunderbird) automatically. No error message.

3

I had installed the portable version for linux.
I have tried now with the deb version, but still the same problem.

4

@t-morales This seems to be some java issue, I read that you may need libgnome-2 to get it working
the thread is about another function of java.awt.Desktop, but it’s the same class, so this might be workin here

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Maybe you are right and it is related to that. I am actually using Kubuntu 21.10 with KDE plasma.
Unfortunately that post is rather old and libgnome-2 is no longer available.
Has anyone with KDE got to use this function?