* Letting the shell execute an attachment
@ 2002-08-24 12:33 Tom Koelman
2002-08-24 15:28 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Tom Koelman @ 2002-08-24 12:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
I'm running Oort 0.07 with Windows 2000. In dired-mode I have a useful
binding which basically does a w32-shell-execute "open"
(convert-standard-filename file)) on the file at point. I would very
much like to have the same functionality with attachments, which I
imagine would save the attachment to a temporary directory and the
does the "open" thingy. Is something like this already possible?
Tom
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* Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment
2002-08-24 12:33 Letting the shell execute an attachment Tom Koelman
@ 2002-08-24 15:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-24 17:33 ` Mark Milhollan
2002-08-24 18:09 ` Tom Koelman
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2002-08-24 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
You can just put "image/jpeg; open %s" into the ~/.mailcap file and
then it will work for attachments of type image/jpeg. Similar lines
for other types will also work.
You could also put "tom/open; open %s" into ~/.mailcap and then use
the "View as type" command to invoke this line.
kai
--
A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)
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* Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment
2002-08-24 15:28 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2002-08-24 17:33 ` Mark Milhollan
2002-08-24 18:09 ` Tom Koelman
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From: Mark Milhollan @ 2002-08-24 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>You can just put "image/jpeg; open %s" into the ~/.mailcap file and
>then it will work for attachments of type image/jpeg. Similar lines
>for other types will also work.
And will surely get you infected with Klez or SirCam, or a porno dialer, or
any number of other horrible things. If you had a utility that only worked
on JPEG images, which would not use DDE, that should be safe to name, e.g.,
image/jpeg; i_view32.exe %s
/mark
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* Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment
2002-08-24 15:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-24 17:33 ` Mark Milhollan
@ 2002-08-24 18:09 ` Tom Koelman
2002-08-24 18:46 ` François Pinard
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Tom Koelman @ 2002-08-24 18:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai Großjohann wrote:
> You can just put "image/jpeg; open %s" into the ~/.mailcap file and
> then it will work for attachments of type image/jpeg. Similar lines
> for other types will also work.
Thanks, this almost worked. I had to change the line in ~/.mailcap to
"image/jpeg; %s", which did the trick.
Tom
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* Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment
2002-08-24 18:09 ` Tom Koelman
@ 2002-08-24 18:46 ` François Pinard
2002-08-24 19:59 ` Tom Koelman
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From: François Pinard @ 2002-08-24 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
[Tom Koelman]
> Thanks, this almost worked. I had to change the line in ~/.mailcap to
> "image/jpeg; %s", which did the trick.
Aren't you afraid to execute arbitrary code from within received messages?
If I wanted such a thing, I'd drop Gnus and go straight to MS-Outlook.
After having moved all my things to some safer machine, of course! :-)
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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* Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment
2002-08-24 18:46 ` François Pinard
@ 2002-08-24 19:59 ` Tom Koelman
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Tom Koelman @ 2002-08-24 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
François Pinard wrote:
>> Thanks, this almost worked. I had to change the line in ~/.mailcap to
>> "image/jpeg; %s", which did the trick.
>
> Aren't you afraid to execute arbitrary code from within received messages?
Well, no. I'll be very careful, I promise. Anyway, some pictures I
just want to see. Whether I save them and open them myself or whether
Gnus does the work doesn't matter much, I gather.
Tom
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