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newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de wrote:
> Joachim Schrod <jschrod@acm.org> writes:
>> My vm-mime-external-content-types-alist has the entry
>> ("application/pdf" "acroread")
>>
>> When an attachment name has spaces in it, acroread is called with several
>> arguments instead of one. Anybody got a patch already for that? Then I won't
>> have to look at the issue myself. ;-)
> 
> Have you Googled?
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=400320B7.5060408%40yahoo.com
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=86hdyoc6n9.fsf%40robf.deREMOVETHIS

Yes, but obviously my search term was not good enough. This thread didn't appear 
on the first two pages. Thanks for the pointers, they remedy my problem.

>> Incidentially, that looks as if the external-content program is called via a
>> shell. Anybody knows why that is done or if it can be avoided? That behaviour
>> opens up issues of shell command insertions which would be more difficult if
>> the program is called directly.
> 
> It is called via 'start-process', which IMHO is not the shell.

But then one wouldn't need the quoting that is introduced in the first posting 
you refered to, above. If one just passes the attachment name as argument to 
start-process, it wouldn't be split at white space. Anyhow, it works this way; 
perhaps I'll check for the shell call when I have more time.

>> Also, while I'm at it: Sometimes, VM calls the external-content program for
>> application/pdf automatically when I look at a mail. I don't want my MUA to
>> call external programs automatically -- after all, I don't use Outlook
>> either. :-) Is that behaviour known? Can I prevent it?
> 
> It should not happen unless you have added application/pdf to
> vm-auto-displayed-mime-content-types, but if you did add it, then
> it should happen everytime.

No, application/pdf is not in that list. I'll try to construct an example and 
will come back to this newsgroup if I have more specific information.

Again, thanks a lot for the pointer to the patches.

	Joachim

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