Re: Cannot open attachments with gnus

[Jambunathan K]

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 <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> 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