-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/27/08 09:24, andy wrote: [snip] > > Chris - if the attachment is saved, then OOo can open it easily enough > from the /home or wherever it is saved to. However, this is only a > partial solution because my wife doesn't always want to save the > attachment and may just want to read it "on the fly".
Which is perfectly reasonable. > Ron - I have no idea why (or really *if*) the age of the email is a > factor. It just seems that with KMail, at least, an attachment in a > newly arrived email can be read via a right-click open attachment, but > once they have been stored for a while, can no longer be opened like > that but must be saved as Chris pointed out. I suspected that it may > have something to do with an archiving process that KMail runs, but this > is just a guess (and uneducated at that). That needs more research on your part as to whether there's an auto-archive occurring, what the age trigger is, and if, in fact, that is the cut-off for the ability to read attachments. > Be this as it may, the crux of the question is how does one include > directories within OOo's path? It doesn't have anything to do with OOo, but KMail. It has to tell OOo to look "here". - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiM1+YACgkQS9HxQb37Xmf+LACffrQLboRqzCzz7TtR7+fPxHsS 9vkAoLWH4L/mamICC4AIkaPFA7BUJXXc =S4T6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]