Re: [Evolution] HTML Attachments

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

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.

Check your "Plain Text Mode" setting under Mail Preferences -> HTML
Messages and make sure it's set to "Show HTML if present" (at least for
the purpose of diagnosing this problem).

As I vaguely recall there was some policy debate about how these options
should handle HTML parts that led to us adding a "Show suppressed HTML
parts as attachments" check box in 2.29.  What you're encountering may
be one of the bugs that led to that debate.

Perhaps also give 2.29 a try, if you can.

Matthew Barnes