On 27/09/12 10:42, Ed Greshko types:

Are you actually asking about how to have thunderbird launch an application 
different from parole?
I suppose that would work for the typical user but that's not the solution I wanted. I prefer to control what the computer does, if I have VLC installed I should be able to select it somehow and that has always been the case! I would select Other > /usr/bin/vlc, check always do it that way and forget the other stuff that may or may not work.

In thunderbird, have you gone to "Edit---Preferences" and then Attachments to see if 
there is a "content type" defined?  If so, there should be an Action with a drop down 
where you can change it.


   Edit > Preferences > Applications would seem a likely candidate for
   accomplishing that but I can't find a way to add the file type MOV:


       The message source contains:

       --Apple-Mail-E11F90D8-F050-4959-B4F3-5C86AD57E5CF
       Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
       Content-Type: text/plain;
            charset=us-ascii




       --Apple-Mail-E11F90D8-F050-4959-B4F3-5C86AD57E5CF
       Content-Disposition: attachment;
            filename=IMG_7421.MOV
       Content-Type: video/quicktime;
            name=IMG_7421.MOV
       Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

   Google produces instructions that look as though they might work if
   I could apply them, haven't had much success though.

   But it should not be this complicated, normally it give the option
   to select Other and that's it.

   I can still view the .mov files by saving them so it's not do or
   die, just an annoyance. I will check on another computer and see
   what happens there. I'll have to rsync the mail files to test that ...

   Thanks for the help,

   Bob


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