> 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. :( -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:[email protected]> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
