[Users] Open Attachments

[Brian Bates]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2021 08:25:57 +0200
Milan Obuch <claws-mail-users at dino.sk> wrote:

> > Sorry for being vague.
> > What I am trying to achieve:
> > 1. Open new compose window.
> > 2. Press Ctrl+M and attach a pdf file.
> > 3. Go to the "Attachments" tab in the compose window.
> > 
> > This is where I am stumped so far.
> > 
> > This will now be showing the attached file details in what I think
> > may be a list box, under the headings "Mime type" "Size" "Name".
> > It should be showing the following line:
> > "application/pdf 20.11KB mypdf.pdf"
> > 
> > If I double click this line it shows a properties dialog.
> > Right click give the options to remove it, add another file or show
> > the properties dialog.
> > 
> > I would like to add the ability to open the file in the appropriate
> > external program. In this case my choice of pdf viewer.
> >   
> 
> Brian, thanks for description. This is actually functionality I was
> missing on some occasion in past. Maybe others find it usefull as
> well. Are you able to build Claws Mail by yourself? I did some search
> in sources and I think in order to achieve what you want, some
> editing or patching source files would be necessary.
I am using the default Debian stable version, but I could build Claws
Mail to test it. Can I modify the path so I can run both versions at
the same time? In Debian Claws Mail is the binary in /usr/bin as
opposed to a link.

> 
> Nicest way to solve this issue would be adding two items to popup menu
> invoked by right click, 'Open' and 'Open with...' (as found in main
> window's menu item 'View' -> 'Message part' or in popup menu shown
> when right clicking message part in message view window). There is one
> problem - there is no mimeview member in struct _Compose as opposed to
> _Mainwindow (via messageview) and _MessageView.
Exactly what I was looking for. I thought I might have been able to
create actions for this using Python, but I haven't had enough time due
to work commitments to become familiar with the Python interface.

> 
> So I have no answer for you right now. Maybe others could offer more
> insight, however for now I think this is a task for developers (maybe
> not that hard). I am going to investigate a bit more, but some more
> time is necessary to do so...
This is not a major problem, Claws Mail is great, but like all software
there always seems to be something that I would like to tweak. :)

Thanks for your help, have a great day.

-- 
Cheers

Buzz