Re: [Evolution] Where does Evolution get its mime-type handlers?

[Keith Sharp <kms passback co uk>]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 13:24 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:20 -0500, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:
> > I'm running Evolution 2.0.2 under RHEL4, and I used to be able to see a
> > list of mime-type handlers when I'd click on the drop-down menu for
> > attachments embedded in the evolution message pane.  For example, when a
> > Word doc was attached, the drop-down menu would include an option for
> > opening with Open Office, when a PDF file was attached, the menu would
> > include acroread, and when another email was attached, the menu would
> > include a list of text editors to open the attachments with.
> >
> > Now those options are gone.  I only get "Save as..." as an option for
> > attached documents, and "Forward/Reply" as options for attached
> > messages.  So I'm guessing somewhere a configuration file got trashed or
> > trampled at some point, but I can't seem to figure out where that
> > configuration is in order to correct it.  Can anyone here point me in
> > the right direction?
>
>
> I believe gnome-vfs provides the MIME registry.  Evolution calls to it
> to learn what applications can open a particular mime-type.
>
> Do you see this same problem in other applications?  Maybe try
> reinstalling the gnome-vfs2 package.
>
> Matthew Barnes

Not quite the same problem, but similar:

        http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392731

On FC6 (Evolution 2.8.2.1) all attachments are displayed as
attachment.dat, even on a system where the mail server is Centos 4.4
running Dovecot IMAP rather than Exchange as reported in the bug.  As
stated in the mail thread:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2006-December/msg00138.html

downgrading to 2.8.1 resolved the problem.  I am surprised that no one
else has been seeing this!

Keith.