I believe this bug due to bug in open_kde function in xdg-email file.
kreadconfig5 reports that configured "thunderbird.desktop" tool. Obviously this is not a executable file.
This cound be fixed by adding one line to xdg-email: if echo "$client" | grep -Eq 'thunderbird|icedove'; then this line > client=`desktop_file_to_binary "$client"` run_thunderbird "$client" "$1" fi Best regards Vasiliy Shlykov