Open links behind mail

Since migrating to Yosemite, I can no longer use "open links behind mail" feature. Apparently this is a bug and I see complaints about it going back to Oct 2013 at least. Does anyone know if Apple EVER fixed this problem?

OogieM wrote:
Bad syntax on my part. It's the right click Contextual menu. But I use it so much it's a shortcut for me, Sorry for the improper terminology.
No problem. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. I thought that maybe the problem was a missing shortcut which I was unaware of. I have the contextual menu, and it works. If there was a shortcut, I didn't have it and thought that maybe that was what everybody is having a problem with.
Do you have the contextual menu item? Or does it just not work? I've seen some posts where the contextual menu is missing altogether.

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