On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 09:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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.
Source of one example looks like: .... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_13302_1924719201.1267621521525" X-Evolution-Source: imap://awill...@aleph.wmmi.net/ ------=_Part_13302_1924719201.1267621521525 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <html xmlns:awi="http://www.synchronoss.com/BeanstoXml/UverseOrder.xsd"; xmlns:et="http://synchronoss.com/workflow/EMailTemplate_v1"; xmlns:ema1="http://synchronoss.com/attwireline/EmailMeta";> <head> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <meta content="tmplte-1"> <title>Your Uverse Order *******************</title> </head> <body> .... more stuff..... </body> </html> ------=_Part_13302_1924719201.1267621521525-- -- openSUSE w/GNOME <http://www.opensuse.org/en/> Linux for human beings who need to get work done. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
