On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > Ideally, icedove could do some file(1) magic to double-check at least > octet-stream attachments. That would help immensely here.
This is a work-around which I've tried and works: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1525178 Yes, it's a long sequence of ridiculous nonsense steps which however DOES solve the problem. After doing that, icedove shows a firefox-like download window for a bit then opens the document in evince. This seems to be relevant: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453805 Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <[email protected]>
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