Upstream adjusted my patch to xdg-utils a little before committing it. Merge.

scripts/xdg-email

 #!/bin/sh
 #---------------------------------------------
 #   xdg-email
 #
 #   Utility script to open the users favorite email program, using the
 #       RFC 2368 mailto: URI spec
 #
 #   Refer to the usage() function below for usage.
 #
 #   Copyright 2009-2010, Fathi Boudra <fabo@freedesktop.org>
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       case "$(uname 2>/dev/null)" in 
         Darwin)
           DE=darwin;
           ;;
       esac
     fi
 
     if [ x"$DE" = x"gnome" ]; then
       # gnome-default-applications-properties is only available in GNOME 2.x
       # but not in GNOME 3.x
-      which gnome-default-applications-properties > /dev/null 2> /dev/null || DE="gnome3"
+      which gnome-default-applications-properties > /dev/null 2>&1  || DE="gnome3"
     fi
 }
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # kfmclient exec/openURL can give bogus exit value in KDE <= 3.5.4
 # It also always returns 1 in KDE 3.4 and earlier
 # Simply return 0 in such case
 
 kfmclient_fix_exit_code()
 {
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     ;;
 
     generic|lxde)
     open_generic "${mailto}"
     ;;
 
     *)
     exit_failure_operation_impossible "no method available for opening '${mailto}'"
     ;;
 esac