Letting the shell execute an attachment

Letting the shell execute an attachment

[Tom Koelman]

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

Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment

[Kai Großjohann]

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)

Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment

[Mark Milhollan]

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

Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment

[Tom Koelman]

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

Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment

[François Pinard]

[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

Re: Letting the shell execute an attachment

[Tom Koelman]

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