VM and Emacs

[Markus Wawryniuk]

Hello,

I came across a sollution for my question 2 by myself (via using
xfig).

  (setq vm-mime-external-content-types-alist
            '((text/html" "netscape -remote 'openFile(%f)'")))

  http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html

It remains question 1:

How can I force vm to save the temporary files with the particular
extension?

Hints are very appreciated.

Thanks,
Markus


Markus Wawryniuk writes:
 > 
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I have trouble to read emails using VM in html-format. E.g. the buffer
 > contains
 > 
 > HTML, iso-8859-1                    [Click mouse-2 to display text].
 > 
 > Then I press $ e to start netscape to view the message. The problems
 > are:
 > 
 > 1. If there is a running netscape, only a new netscape window with my
 > initial homepage pops up. The message is not displayed.
 > 
 > 2. If there is not a running netscape, the message is displayed via a
 > file in /tmp - but without the *.html extension. For this reason the
 > message is not displayed properly sometimes (I see the html source
 > code).
 > 
 > My questions:
 > 
 > 1. How can I force vm to save the temporary files with the particular
 > extension?
 > 
 > 2. How can I force netscape to show the file, despite running
 > instances (maybe not using the cache)?
 > 
 > I am using VM 6.75. and >> XEmacs 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley"
 > [Lucid] (i386-suse-linux, Mule) of Wed May 16 2001 on knuth <<. There
 > are a lot of differences regarding the manual and reality. For
 > instance the variable vm-mime-attachment-auto-suffix-alist does not
 > exists. And a definition with ("text/html" . ".html") does not help -
 > as solution for question 1.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Markus
 > 
 > PS: I did not find any mailing lists for VM. So I try to get your
 > help.
 > 
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 > Markus Wawryniuk               
 > Computer & Information Science
 > University of Konstanz
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 > 78457 Konstanz               phone:  ++49-7531-88-3070 
 > Germany                      fax:    ++49-7531-88-3062
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Markus Wawryniuk               
Computer & Information Science
University of Konstanz
Universitätsstr. 10 - D78    e-mail: wawryniu@informatik.uni-konstanz.de
78457 Konstanz               phone:  ++49-7531-88-3070 
Germany                      fax:    ++49-7531-88-3062
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