Re: [Evolution] Unable to save attachment

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

> The HTML of the message you received says to display the attachment
> as part of the body of the message which is what webkit tries to do.
> But the attachment is a Word Document, and there is no mechanism
> within Evolution to display Word Documents in-line so it puts in the
> "Missing Plug-in" icon.

The attachment IS a PDF, but is marked in the message as a DOCX
document (Word 2013 or greater).  Who/whatever generated the message
botched it.

This is relatively common - people print-to-pdf an M$-Office document
but keep the file extension and then send it - and the type is
determined [erroneously] from the file extension rather than the
metadata or magic number.  I also suspect some people get clever with
Macros - and they are not developers - and they whip up something that
generates this mess automatically [so good luck convincing them it is
their fault].

Shrug.  I see this regularly.  If users don't know what you are doing
or understand file-types they are pretty much just screwed - but it is
an complete flub on the **SENDERS** behalf.  This is always a fun one
for the help desk guys - as far as the user is concerned it is always
the applications fault. :(

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA