Bug#384351: mutt: fails to correctly send a .doc file to OpenOffice

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 02:06:04PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
> Hello Julian, and thank you for reporting us this problem.
> 
>  On Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 18:21:21 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 
> >| application/msword; oowriter '%s'; edit=oowriter '%s';
> 
>     BTW, there should not be single quotes around %s in mailcap.
> 
> 
> > when I select this file for viewing from the attachments window,
> > OpenOffice gives the error message: /tmp/People_list_060612.doc does
> > not exist
> 
>     Mutt deletes the temporary file when the called process returns.
> This is not a bug, but admitedly may not suit background running apps.
> Gary Johnson's excellent mutt_bgrun is the usual solution.

Unfortunately, mutt_bgrun doesn't work either: oowriter exits
immediately and so the temporary file gets deleted before the new
oowriter process which is called has time to read it.

I'm using openoffice.org-gnome; might that have something to do with
it?

   Julian