On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:34 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > I [sadly] very frequently get HTML-only e-mail. In evolution these are > shown as "attachment.dat" attachments of type "HTML Document". Only > they do not display in the message view window, only as "unknown > attachment". They have an option to "Open with Firefox". But when I do > that FF opens the document thinking it is a "video/mpeg Object". > > Is there a setting that is wrong, or one I can change, to have the > attachments displayed. > > The boundry in the message source typically looks like: > > ------=_Part_13302_1924719201.1267621521525 > Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline
The problem is almost certainly with whoever is sending these mails. "attachment.dat" looks like an Outlook-ism. It's possible that these don't contain well-formed HTML with the proper headers, which confuses the Evo HTML module. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
