Sending files with Evolution as attachment from Nautilus

For some years now I have noticed some odd behaviour after sending (Evolution) email attachments starting with the Nautilus ‘Send to…’ function, as described below:

  1. Select a file using the Nautilus ‘Send to…’ function, to be sent as attachment to an email
  2. Evolution opens a new Email with the file attached
  3. Complete the Email with text and send it. ‘Sending’ apparently goes to completion. Evolution mail editor closes automatically
  4. Open Evolution mail program and more often than not the message appears that ‘editing had not been completed. Recover or discard’
  5. Check the Sent messages. The mail has indeed been correctly sent. The message from 4 above was evidently wrong, even though the email text shown during 4 was incomplete.

When is the action under 4 above significant or relevant? Does it only happen
when the recipient of the mail is not myself, (or perhaps not my own mail server)?

@hnimmo:

Is there anything in the user’s systemd Journal indicating an error when Nautilus attempts to connect to Evolution?

  • In your GNOME environment, is Evolution the default e-Mail application?

How about these 3 lines from

journalctl -b
Apr 25 11:49:20 linux-lueh nautilus[18265]: Unexpected plugin response.  This probably indicates a bug in a Nautilus extension: handle=0x55b665a16250 
Apr 25 11:49:26 linux-lueh evolution-alarm[18309]: Your application did not unregister from D-Bus before destruction. Consider using g_application_run(). 
Apr 25 11:49:38 linux-lueh systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Succeeded.

Evolution is the default email application.

@hnimmo:

Then a Bug Report is needed –

  • Either an openSUSE Bug Report (same login as this Forum) for submission up-stream to the Nautilus developers.
  • Or, a Bug Report direct to the Nautilus developers with, an associated openSUSE Bug Report to track the repair.

Bug 1198856 has been submitted.