The end-user does not ask anything, they just open the attachment. And they probably won't edit the source of every message to check that the encoding is fine.
The proposed fix is very simple, Mozilla guys may use it or not, i just propose it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500367 Title: Thunderbird sends .doc attachments with wrong mime-type (text/richtext) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
