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Article #675Re: Launching of external applications
From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:36
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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