Re: [Evolution] Viewing attachments in Evo?

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist us>]

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 14:27 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 14:21 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:11 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > > > How to teach Nautilus about that? Saving the file it becomes a pdf-file
> > > > as all other .pdfs? An example is application/acrobat (file.pdf)
> > > > I have not found of anything about attachments in Nautilus.
> > >
> > > See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2009-May/msg00058.html
> >
> > I think what Svante is saying is that the "bogus" MIME type is known
> > only to Evolution: it's the content encoding on the email message.  Once
> > Evolution saves the file to disk, it's just a normal PDF file.  When
> > Nautilus properties are opened, they use file(1) or whatever to discover
> > the type of the file and call it application/pdf, NOT the bogus MIME
> > type it was sent with in the email message.
> >
> > So, how do you manage this bogus MIME type?
> >
> > Isn't there any MIME type editor available?  It would be SOOOO much
> > simpler, in many cases.
>
> vi   ;)
>
> not sure if making changes as noted here would make any difference or
> not, but might be worth a shot.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-list gnome org/msg11616.html

Yes, this is EXACTLY why there should be some tool for managing this: it
would understand both the local defaults.list and the system-wide one,
and be able to update the local one (and, if run as root, perhaps the
system wide one--or maybe it could be integrated with .

I can hardly believe that no one has created such a useful thing already
as part of the standard Gnome desktop.

I looked around through my Ubuntu repositories and found assoGiate which
looks like pretty much what I was looking for.  If you have that in your
repository you should give it a try... nice!

You can edit the application/pdf mime type and create new aliases for it
such as application/acrobat; that should solve your problem.