From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cannot open attachments with gnus Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:57:49 +0530 Message-ID: <87eh5a3kju.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387337336 32066 80.91.229.3 (18 Dec 2013 03:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Alan Schmitt Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 18 04:29:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vt7oi-0003XW-PS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 04:29:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vt7oi-00058H-8R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:29:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vt7oU-00057y-5I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:28:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vt7oP-0002rk-BM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:28:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22e]:54397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vt7oP-0002rb-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id md12so7828804pbc.19 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:28:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=KCyZtvBjTogdCyt5Jr1vwA3bL1VDiddxPKicoSXRCOU=; b=XlPwKCulLFZpMUD55CGRz8tCVpTaODTAkqCtSvAPBPSAzmVWIOHKRWpw1Uo3Uti9T7 xpJ3syQal/RBKr/uvliOnn90UrAyP1SFAKfuQWOhnMlke8fwPQJS2r/lrRERxmZvvq9E jxFbZ2tVRuEPl+HLVrpXrL1xI/H5X3VHNQiJGH/cJ1JrrahfKdlv9EyZTEpICXDpUdEW brbW3VMHAjXGyR/0Pu28KmHIvaAn7mvaelUCSLme0/Y1R5llxk83GJEmAmBhXZjgn/ob VSfwq+OXne3qaLvoC5nD5TuI+0imQIWUVOT3PIoLsWCfrFc4xyUuj2t3UECrZGK7SV3l rQyQ== X-Received: by 10.66.118.71 with SMTP id kk7mr31035447pab.14.1387337320215; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:28:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([115.241.55.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ik1sm37401884pbc.9.2013.12.17.19.28.37 for (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:28:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Alan Schmitt's message of "Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:02:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95075 Archived-At: If you are on Debian, install xdg-utils which will give you xdg-open. If I change the default extension-to-application mapping in Thunar (I use XFCE) then the viewer gets chosen automatically. See bug report rooted at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/75043 for some issues surrounding xdg-open. Alan Schmitt writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use gnus as my main MUA, and there is one thing with which > I'm having trouble. When I try to open an attachment, I get an error: > > Displaying open > /var/folders/68/fvntfrw92y50gkk_67rkhsfw0000gn/T/emm.88866Aaw/relectures_RA_2013.pdf...done > > The problem is that the attachment is not saved to disk: I can see the > folder /var/folders/68/fvntfrw92y50gkk_67rkhsfw0000gn/T but there is no > folder starting with emm inside it. Thus the open command fails. > > Has someone already encountered such a bug? > > Thanks, > > Alan