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

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:08:22AM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
>  On Sunday, August 27, 2006 at 16:54:12 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>     mutt_bgrun does the backgrounding; The viewer must not. Otherwise
> the early deletion problem continues. Perhaps is there an option to
> disable backgrounding in oowriter?
> 
>     Alternatively drop mutt_bgrun, and wait some seconds. Example:
> "oowriter %s \; sleep 42". That's less clean, but may just work.
> 
>     I think clean solutions are just 2: Either read file first then go
> background, or use mutt_bgrun with a blocking viewer.

Thanks!

   Julian