Re: [Evolution] Question/Bug in Evolution?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Gnome certainly doesn't read mailcap, which isn't sufficiently rich
enough for a modern system.  It has it's own mailcap and mimetype
database system.  Umm, try looking around gnome.org/searching for gnome
mime type or something on google.

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:54 -0400, David Ronis wrote:
> I've just started using evolution on a slackware-10.1/freerock
> gnome-current box (currently Evolution-2.4.0) and have encountered a
> problem with word attachments.  Evolution correctly identifies them, but
> doesn't seem to have abiword correctly set up as the correct mime type.
> I've added 
>
>                     application/msword; abiword '%s'
>
> to my .mailcap file and 
>                          application/msword doc
>
> to my .mime.types file, but this didn't help.  Oddly, other attachments 
> seem to work fine (e.g., a MS Excel spreadsheet gave me the option of
> opening it with gnumeric), but with MS word files all I can do is save
> them to disk.
>
> This might simply be a difference in the way gnome handles mime, but if
> so, I need a hint as to what to do.
>
> David
>
>
>
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