Judging from my quick test, the root cause of this bug is fixed. I just
saved a .jpg attachment from an e-mail with mime headers that
incorrectly claim that the image is an FLV video, and I selected "Do
this automatically for files like this from now on". In the past, it
seems this would cause mimeTypes.rdf to be infected with an entry that
claimed that files ending in .jpg where FLV videos, and thunderbird
would proceed to use that association when sending .jpg attachments.
But now, with thunderbird version 10.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1,
mimeTypes.rdf remains unaffected.
So, I think we can close this bug, unless we want to do an SRU or
something. (The bug is gone in oneiric, I don't know about other Ubuntu
versions.) If you have bugzilla.mozilla.org account, I think you can
close the upstream one as well.
On 02/12/2012 05:07 PM, Don Cristóbal wrote:
> @ Vseerror: I veryfied and I don't see the bug any more. However, I
> don't understand all of the discussion above, so I won't change the
> bug's status. Anyway, I don't see such an entry as worksforme.
It seems that the message you replied to was imported by launchpad from
the upstream bugzilla.mozilla.org entry. Launchpad doesn't have a
"worksforme" resolution, but bugzilla does.
** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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Title:
Thunderbird sends .doc attachments with wrong mime-type
(text/richtext)
Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
New
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: thunderbird
Summary: Thunderbird should eliminate bad entries in the mimeTypes.rdf
file, especially the one that in some cases links .doc files with the
mime-type "text/richtext".
Longer explanation:
Attaching .doc documents (MS word format, can also be saved by
OpenOffice.org) causes the (binary) contents of the file to be displayed inline
(like body text): plenty of weird characters, hundreds of question marks etc
(see below B.).
Primary reason: In (my and other people's) mimeTypes.rdf, there is an
entry that makes TB think that .doc files are of the mime-type
"text/richtext", instead of "application/msword" (see below A.).
"text/richtext" attachments are displayed inline, "application/msword"
attachments not.
Removing the tag <NC:fileExtensions>doc</NC:fileExtensions> and
restarting TB fixes the problem.
This does NOT happen with a fresh profile, because it does not contain
the corrupt entry. But still, users suffering from this problem should
be helped automatically. The GUI does not offer a solution for this,
as far as I know.
A. The corrupt entry from mimeTypes.rdf:
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:text/richtext"
NC:value="text/richtext"
NC:editable="true"
NC:description="Microsoft Word-Dokument">
<NC:fileExtensions>doc</NC:fileExtensions>
<NC:fileExtensions>rtx</NC:fileExtensions>
<NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:text/richtext"/>
</RDF:Description>
B. An extract from a corrupted mail:
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(...)
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 25 15:57:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.3)
Package: mozilla-thunderbird (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
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