Thanks sushi3, i'll add that to next release. Thanks also for confirming that the hack is needed since i was wondering if there was a better way to decode... maybe i'll borrow some user made function in future.

lars : i tried doing this today without much luck (still went to modest in diablo) so i'm not sure where that setting is coming from. I'll keep looking but even if i find it im not certain mailto links are practical for dbus-switchboard... you would probably need a script to parse out email (possibly subject) and have claws support support invoking a new mail via command line.

You probably would have better luck (and i'll try this next) : using -firefox- settings for associating claws as outlined here :
http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index....ail_program.3F