Bug 650088 - Cannot send message from Contacts view

This starts up the EMailShellBackend whenever a new composer window is
created.  Normally this happens when switching to the Mail shell view,
but if trying to send a message from a different shell view before the
Mail shell view is ever activated, the mail accounts were not getting
loaded and sending or saving the message to a mail folder would fail.

(cherry picked from commit 766c0b0b55a0f12c03d82deac2b2633630eff27e)

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/mail/e-mail-shell-backend.c b/modules/mail/e-mail-shell-backend.c
index af4af565f7..59a91a7454 100644
--- a/modules/mail/e-mail-shell-backend.c
+++ b/modules/mail/e-mail-shell-backend.c
@@ -417,6 +417,11 @@ mail_shell_backend_window_created_cb (EShell *shell,
 	}
 
 	if (E_IS_MSG_COMPOSER (window)) {
+		/* Start the mail backend if it isn't already.  This
+		 * may be necessary when opening a new composer window
+		 * from a shell view other than mail. */
+		e_shell_backend_start (shell_backend);
+
 		/* Integrate the new composer into the mail module. */
 		em_configure_new_composer (E_MSG_COMPOSER (window));
 		return;