Re: mangled attachements

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 12/17/2005 08:35:15 PM Sat, hannes wrote:
> hello everybody,
>
> its the balsa newbie again. I have imported mails from pegasus,  
> an all the pic attachements are now Content type  
> application/octet-stream.
>
> the faq says: ...in the Control Panel for Balsa, under Mime  
> Types, find application/octet-stream - highlight it, select  
> "Edit" ...
>
> but - where do I find these Mime types? The preferences-menu?

That must be referring to some feature of earlier versions of  
Gnome--I don't know of a "Control Panel for Balsa".

Presumably, if you look at the message source, you'll see that  
the image has content-type:application/octet-stream and  
content-disposition:attachment.  Balsa takes that at face value,  
and the popup menu for that item on the "Message parts" part  
offers only the option to "Save..." the part.  But if you  
activate the item (double-click, or hit the space bar while it's  
selected), Balsa will try to display it, and if it recognizes the  
content as an image, will offer the option to view it with your  
default image viewer.

Unfortunately, a bug in version 2.3.3 and later versions prevents  
Balsa from recognizing content when the message is in an  
mbox-style mailbox.  It should still work if you create a maildir  
or mh mailbox and move the messages there.

HTH!

Peter