Re: [Evolution] Viewing attachments in Evo?

[Jim McKean <jim mckeanco com>]

I don't think I have received a pdf in the last 6 months that I can open
inside Evolution.  It's rather annoying, because I get many a day and I
usually only need to open and review the content in them, not save them.
It is part of an approval workflow process.

I have also noticed that I cannot open new Microsoft formats either --
the xlsx types.

I looked back at a few and they are all showing up as
application/octet-stream, and they have appropriate file extensions.

Nautilus fires up openoffice or evince to open either with no problem,
so getting the association right in Nautilus does not fix the problem in
Evolution.

The files come from a very diverse sources, most of whom are likely
using Outlook.

Does anyone know why these are attachments are causing this problem?  I
feel certain that PDFs have worked in the past.

Jim

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 12:05 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 17:31 +0200, Svante R Signell wrote:
> > BTW: How to open the Nautilus file viewer from a terminal?
> > I have forgotten the command.
>
> "nautilus --browser"
>
>
> > When the file is attached as "application/acrobat attachment"
> > or "application/stream attachment" I only get the option to save the
> > file and the use an external viewer to actually look at the file. Where
> > to enable the inside Evo viewing? Is related to mime.types and/or
> > mailcap files??
>
> MIME type handling is desktop-wide, not Evolution-specific.
>
> For "application/acrobat" attachments (which is not a valid MIME type,
> see [1]), save the file to disk and teach Nautilus how to handle it.
> Your choice of application will then be listed in Evolution.
>
> "application/stream", on the other hand, is a generic description for
> unknown MIME types.  You probably don't want to associate an application
> for that type since it could be anything.  Evolution -should- attempt to
> guess the type from the attachment's filename extension (e.g. .pdf), but
> if it lacks even that then your only choice it to save it to disk.
>
> [1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/
>
> Matthew Barnes
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