can't open an attachement if not listed in registered files types
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: thunderbird
Hello,
I received an email with a PDF attachment but I have no way to open it except saving it and open it later with my file explorer.
Before attempting to open the attachement, I had the below file types association:
- file extension: PDF
- action: open with kpdf
- mime type: application/pdf
The attachement had "text/octet-stream" MIME type.
I get the attached error message.
Why not proposing a menu entry with an action like "open with..." in order to avoid to use the file explorer as a workaround.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 3 12:42:04 2009
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic x86_64
tags: |
added: lucid removed: apport-bug |
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I have set Thunderbird to default to open PDF files, rather then ask what to do, but when a PDF is attached with a bad mime it still trys to open it only to hand the user a cryptic error. But if I instead save the offending PDF file to disk and then open it manually it opens just fine.
My dad receives files like this from his layer who is using Outlook 2003, the PDF seams to have been generated using Word 2007
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5
Content-Type: application/ octet-stream; name="file.pdf"
Content- Description: Faktura.pdf
Content- Disposition: attachment; filename="file.pdf"
Content- Transfer- Encoding: base64