On Thu, 2023-02-09 at 08:52 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > The other thing I found strange is, I have Thunderbird Daily configured > to prompt for download locations, and when I click on the pdf attachment > in the mail I get prompted to open it in the default app or save it. In > the default app drop down in that dialogue, when the default app was > Ocular, if I select "Other" to select a different app, Acrobat does not > appear in the list of selectable apps even though it is specified the > app list in the pdf application association.
Is this for some, or all, PDFs? A common problem with dealing with attachments is when they're sent using the wrong mime-type. Files are supposed to be sent with a description of what type of file they are, and the recipient is supposed to act upon that information. It's not supposed to guess from the filename, nor snoop into the file to work it out. PDFs ought to be sent as: application/pdf However some senders may be set up badly, and just use the generic "application/binary-octet" that means some unknown binary file. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.83.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 25 16:41:43 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
