Re: [Evolution] Reading file attachments

[Tessa Lau <tlau tlau org>]

I have a similar problem.  I suspect it has to do with MIME types.

My phone system at work sends me email with a wav file when I receive a
voicemail.  These messages display in Evo with an attachment of type
"audio/wav attachment (voice_msg_12345.wav)".  Evo gives me two options:
Save As, and Open in XMMS.  XMMS can't play files of this type.

Now, if I send myself an email from Evolution and attach this wav file,
the resulting message contains an attachment of type "WAV audio
attachment (voice_msg_12345.wav)".  The options here are different!  I
get four options: Save As, Open in vmplay, Open in Totem, Open in XMMS.

I see those options because I used Nautilus to associate different
applications with a saved voicemail file.  (Right click on the file in
Nautilus, select "Properties", tab "Open With", "Add".)

If I look at the email source, I see that the first message's attachment
has a MIME type of audio/wav, while the second message's attachment is
of type audio/x-wav.

So my question is, how do I tell Evolution that I want to use a
different app to play files of type "audio/wav"?

Could this MIME type problem also be causing the differences other
people are seeing with different apps being available for different
attachments?

--Tessa

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Tessa Lau, PhD
http://tlau.org/