Re: Saving attachments

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

Hi Thomas,

Yes, of course. Thanks for reminding me. On very recent version of
Wanderlust (from github), setting process-connection-type should no
longer be necessary, but on older versions it is.

Sorry for all the confusion!

best, Erik

At Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:11:31 -0400,
 wrote:
> 
> Hi Erik.
> 
> As you know, I had problems getting this to work a while back (and
> your help got things sorted out for me).
> 
> Looking back (and just re-verifying what worked and didn't), what I
> had to do was add the following to my .wl:
> 
> (setq mime-play-delete-file-immediately nil)
> (setq process-connection-type nil)
> 
> I just went back and verified that both settings are needed. Without
> these settings, 'v' is effectively a no-op. The message window says
> xdg-open presumably is being called, but I can see that the file it is
> being asked to open has already been deleted.
> 
> > First,
> > 
> >   (setq mime-view-mailcap-files '("~/.mailcap"))
> > 
> > This needs to be done *before* SEMI is loaded. You can use
> > customize-variable for this. Next, use the following (and only the
> > following) in your ~/.mailcap file:
> > 
> >   application/*; xdg-open %s
> >   image/*; xdg-open %s
> >   text/*; xdg-open %s
> >   video/*; xdg-open %s
> >   audio/*; xdg-open %s
> 
> I do not have my own ~/.mailcap, and things work OK using my system
> defaults (well, I've probably only really used html/). And presumably
> you don't need any of the above if /etc/mailcap (or wherever the
> system default is) has the same entries.
> 
> When I was trying to figure this out a while back, I played around
> with my own ~/.mailcap and it seemed to me like the file wasn't even
> being looked at -- changes I made to it didn't seem to have any
> effect.
> 
> > Finally:
> > 
> >   (setq mime-play-find-every-situations nil)
> 
> What is this supposed to do? :-)
> 
> It's t for me...
> 
> Thomas

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