#3532: Use $SHELL when running mailcap-related commands
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Reporter: vinc17 | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: mutt | Version:
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Mutt should run mailcap-related commands (and possibly all commands, in
which case the change could be done in system.c) with the user's shell
(provided by $SHELL, else his login shell?) instead of /bin/sh. The reason
is that /bin/sh is very limited and doesn't allow the user to provide a
file to source in order to dynamically update the environment (for
instance, zsh will source the user's .zshenv file). This is needed when
running Mutt in GNU Screen across X11 sessions: updating the XAUTHORITY
value is necessary before running an X application.
Notes:
* Some other programs already use $SHELL (etc.) instead of /bin/sh for
running commands (e.g. ssh, gdb).
* This can be regarded as incompatible with the mailcap description in the
mailcap(5) man page (at least under Debian), which says that system() is
used, but anyway Mutt is already somewhat incompatible as it doesn't use
system(), and I've reported a bug to change that: http://bugs.debian.org
/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634254
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3532>
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