tags 276744 +patch
severity 276744 important
thanks
Some additional information about this bug report.
1) application/vnd.ms-word is not the official MIME type;
application/msword is the correct, and official MIME type. Please
see:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/msword
2) This bug also causes evolution to use the wrong MIME type, and this
breaks interoperability with certain versions of Microsoft Outlook,
that only accept the official application/msword MIME type, but not
accept the incorrect, and unofficial, application/vnd.ms-word.
Also, extremely unfortunately, evolution doesn't allow you to
override this incorrect MIME type in attachments, which means that
it is impossible to send correct Microsoft Word attachments due to
this bug.
Here is a patch which fixes this problem. Would you please consider
applying it ASAP, instead of waiting for upstream to fix this problem?
Many thanks!!
- Ted
--- /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml.orig 2005-01-12 11:31:57
-0500
+++ /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml 2005-01-12 11:32:39
-0500
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
<match value="0xcfd0e011" type="little32" offset="0"/>
</magic>
</mime-type>
- <mime-type type="application/vnd.ms-word">
+ <mime-type type="application/msword">
<comment>Microsoft Word document</comment>
<comment xml:lang="az">Microsoft Word sənədi</comment>
<comment xml:lang="cs">Dokument Microsoft Word</comment>
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@
<match value="Microsoft Word document data" type="string" offset="2112"/>
</magic>
<glob pattern="*.doc"/>
- <alias type="application/msword"/>
+ <alias type="application/vnd.ms-word"/>
</mime-type>
<mime-type type="application/vnd.palm">
<comment>Palmpilot database/document</comment>
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