Re: Script to invoke Apple Mail.app from within exmh

Hi Matthew,

concerning the faces problem, I actually had the inverse problem of 
what you describe. It works fine with Aqua Tcl/Tk but crashes with
fink. I could however solve this issue by recompiling tkimg with
explicit reference to the fink libraries and include files, so this
is now working.

With the Aqua version I have the problem of not being able to read
the buttons (see my previous mail on this list). Did you solve that
issue?

Concerning attachments, I must admit that I never actually wanted to be 
able to spawn Powerpoint or Excel from within exmh. I have a procmail 
recipe running that automatically files all attachments (like Excel and 
Powerpoint) into a specific folder. So if an attachment from an email 
is interesting (as in is not unsollicited spam), I just go to that 
folder and open the file.

For Word documents I do indeed much appreciate the antiword inline 
display which 99% of the time is sufficient to get the relevant 
information.

So as answer to your question, I don't know how you'd need to modify 
your mailcap file. But I guess you'd just have to get the application 
type description (something like application/vndms-powerpoint and
application/vndms-excel) and add a line to the .mailcap file. From what 
I see in a previous .mailcap that I used under linux, I had the 
following lines:

application/mspowerpoint; kpresenter '%s';test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""
application/vnd.ms-excel; gnumeric '%s'; edit=gnumeric '%s'; description="MS Excel spreadsheet"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.xls
application/msexcel; kspread '%s';test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""

I can't recall whether that ever worked.

Best regards,
Marc Baaden

[email protected] said:
>> Hi Marc:
>> Thanks much for this script.  I look forward to trying it out on my
>> PowerBook G4 as soon as it is back from repairs.  Like you, I have
>> been using exmh 2.7.2/nmh 1.2 on Mac OS X (in my case 10.4.9).  I
>> think I also observed the problem you described -- the labels not
>> displaying properly on the buttons in Aqua Tcl/Tk.  I got around this
>> by using an X version of Tcl/Tk, installed as a fink package.  It is
>> not as pretty as the Aqua version but does display properly and runs
>> faces without a segmentation fault.

>> I have a question for you about displaying attachments in exmh on Mac
>> OS X.  I have only been successful in getting my .mailcap file to run
>> antiword to display MS WORD files as flat text inline.  Have you been
>> able to figure out how to get the mailcap file to spawn PowerPoint
>> and Excel when these types of files are attached to an email?

>> Thanks again for sharing the Mail.app script!  
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