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Re: Launching of external applications

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From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:36
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tft wrote:
 > In passing, is it possible to remove whatever files are opened via
 > this external spawning so that my attachments are not available for
 > others to know about ?  In other words, I get a PDF with a rather
 > descriptive filename, VM spawns the application for me to view the
 > PDF (thanks to those patches :-) yet when I'm done and I close the
 > application the PDF files (or any other attachment) are still there
 > in /tmp (is there a means to automatically delete them after I close
 > the application ?).

The file should be deleted automatically when you quit viewing the
message, quit visiting the folder, quit VM, or quit Emacs itself (see
the call to vm-register-message-garbage-files in
vm-mime-display-external-generic).

 > Come to think of it, it would also be wise to
 > let the user pick a different directory so that even while he/she are
 > viewing the attachment no one can snoop around for info.

C-h v vm-temp-file-directory

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
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