On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:25:18PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> Ben Eastep wrote:
>
> >When an attachement is of type application/octet-stream, thunderbird
> >figures out what to open it by some means, presumably based on the filename,
> >however the open dialog greys out the "Do this automatically for files like
> >this from now on." Presumably this is since a user wouldn't want to pick a
> >single helper to open ALL application/octet-streams, however it would be
> >useful if the user could still edit what thunderbird does with files of
> >whatever specific type thunderbird settled on. Otherwise, with any file
> >types that the user always recieves as octet-stream, there is no way for the
> >user to specifiy a default handling for those files (very annoying)
> >
> >
> You can think of any default handling that makes sense?
>
You ever answered this mail? I cannot find any answer in my mailbox,
thus I either received none or it sank because you replied to my
private address only - in this case sorry ;).
FWIW, I still can't see how to implement a default octet-stream
handler. Maybe one could leverage the 'file' command to extract a
suitable mime-type. Anyway, this is not an option since there is no
such command under windows.
- Alexander
p.s. please take care that the bug is listed as To: or CC: when
replying to this mail (e.g. /reply-all/).
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