[sylpheed:35945] Re: Is it possible to run applications by file extension?

[Till Kolditz]

Am Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:00:39 -0800
schrieb "ag at gmail" <amarendra.godbole at gmail.com>:

> I may be out of line here, since I am not aware of the development model of sylpheed - I feel default execution leads to woes (think outlook), and is a big security concern. Sylpheed has secure defaults - and you are free to change them. Else it won't be different than outlook and in the same league insecure.
> 
> -ag


IMHO I think that not autorunning any files is meant, but customizing the "Open"-action of attachments.
The web browser Opera (up to v12) did have an interesting feature for downloaded files (on windows):
There the context menu of a downloaded file's list entry has a submenu which is the file's context menu, as shown e.g.
in the explorer, from where one can select the "Open with"-action.
By that, the open-actions are still maintained by the operating system and not by sylpheed.

HTH,
-tk


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> > On Jan 14, 2014, at 6:55 PM, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have been running sylpheed for a while. One issue that Is there a way (and place) to set applications to open with specific file types. For instance, I would like to be able to use zathura to open .pdf files, gnumeric to open .xls files, abiword to open .doc files and so on. But I want these actions to be the default, and I do not want to have to go and change the "Open with" button every time a file type that arrives changes. Is it possible to have this feature?
> > 
> > Thanks again for any help!