A compressed file archive isn't really an archive at all. I put things
into an archive that I don't want to see on my desk anymore, but might
need it again in the future. Really, when talking about an archive,
you're talking about it because we used to only be using tar (T ape AR
chive ).[*]
A zip
Attached is an example e-mail. I have deleted all Received headers, as
well as the message content itself. This E-mail displays correctly in
Thunderbird; actually, I could only test it in Icedove version
1.5.0.14eol (20080724), but I assume it would make no difference.
** Attachment added: "A test
I can also confirm this bug.
Evolution 2.22.3.1, Ubuntu 8.04.1
I get an attachment.dat which in reality is a plain/text file, and have
to open that file in an external editor. Please fix, this is annoying!
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evolutions displays pgp-messages as attachment.dat
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184