Re: [Evolution] HTML Attachments

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:34 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I [sadly] very frequently get HTML-only e-mail.  In evolution these are
> shown as "attachment.dat" attachments of type "HTML Document".  Only
> they do not display in the message view window, only as "unknown
> attachment".  They have an option to "Open with Firefox".  But when I do
> that FF opens the document thinking it is a "video/mpeg Object".
>
> Is there a setting that is wrong, or one I can change, to have the
> attachments displayed.
>
> The boundry in the message source typically looks like:
>
> ------=_Part_13302_1924719201.1267621521525
> Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: inline

The problem is almost certainly with whoever is sending these mails.
"attachment.dat" looks like an Outlook-ism. It's possible that these
don't contain well-formed HTML with the proper headers, which confuses
the Evo HTML module.

poc