#1112066 kmail: Context menu for copying or moving messages to another folder instantly closes before a folder can be selected

Package:
kmail
Source:
kmail
Description:
full featured graphical email client
Submitter:
Johannes Ranke
Date:
2025-11-09 06:15:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1112066#5
Date:
2025-08-25 19:51:22 UTC
From:
To:
When right-clicking on a mail, a context menu appears. When selecting
"Move message to " or "Copy message to ..." (translated from German),
that submenu instantly disappears, so messages cannot be moved or copied
using the context menu. Dragging and dropping into a folder or a
favorite folder on the left works.

This is a known problem on Plasma 6 when using wayland and can be worked
around by starting kmail using

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb /usr/bin/kmail

or starting kontact using

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb /usr/bin/kontact

Upstream bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485661