On 05/30/2011 03:27 AM, Hana Skoumalova wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a colleague of mine has a problem with an attachment sent to certain 
> addresses. The attachment is rejected because of a suspicious mime type. 
> And I agree the the mime type is wrong. The document was first edited in 
> MS word, then it was transfered to a linux machine and in 
> OpenOffice.org, it was exported as PDF. When the message arrives to the 
> remote machine, the attached PDF has the mime type application/x-msdownload.
> 
> I tried to repeat the procedure and I sent the resulting PDF to myself, 
> but the attachment got the correct mime type (application/pdf).
> 
> I need to know who sets the mime type to the attachment. Is it 
> SeaMonkey? Both of us are using the same version (2.0.14). Or the 
> outgoing server? We both use the same machine. Or the receiving machine? 
> How can I set the correct mime type?
> 
> Hana

Hana,

I see nobody has answered you yet. I do not know the exact/correct
answer, but this may (or may not) be of some help:

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_Mozilla_determines_MIME_Types>
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en/properly_configuring_server_mime_types>
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Incorrect_MIME_Type_for_CSS_Files>
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions>

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