cannot open forwarded email attachment
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evolution
When looking at an email containing a forwarded email attachment, (in my case it was a air travel itinerary), the attachment (attachment file extension *.dat) fails to open in evolution and also fails when saved and opened from the desktop. When opened from the desktop, I get a text file that looks like raw html. I have attached it to this report. (*note* I obscured the email addresses for privacy)
I am using evolution 2.12.1 on ubuntu 7.10-i386.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 10 22:39:53 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.12.1-0ubuntu1.1
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcCwd: /home/kyle
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux LinuxLappie 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
Thank you for filing the bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately you have not provided enough information to help fix this bug. Is this problem of not able to open an attachment with all other types of file attachments or only with .dat? Or is it only with the particular attachment? Can you please provide us the attachment mentioned in your bug report as a separate attachment to your bug report?
.dat are raw data files and it can contain anything - text, binary or graphical data. If you can open the file in an editor (gEdit) and feel that the contents are like HTML, can you try opening it in a browser (Firefox) and check out the contents?