Bug in gthumb or a bug in mailcap? Or a bug in alpine?

[Karl Larsen]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On a Fedora 7 box, I happen to be using alpine to read mail. A message 
> has a jpg attachment but when I try to view it, gthumb comes up with 
> no image. The attachment is of type Image/JPEG.
>
> Upon investigating I see that the tmp file that got created by alpine 
> was something called
>
> /tmp/img-JPE431100
>
> with no file extension.
>
> gthumb will not display an image if the file has no extension. If I 
> save the file with a .jpg extension then it displays nicely. Yes, 
> there's a workaround, but you'll admit it's a pain and there's no 
> chance of being able to teach my wife how to do this.
>
> So who owns the bug? gthumb? alpine? mailcap? fedora?
>
> Is there a different viewer in fedora I can use that won't have this 
> problem?
>
    I can't tell you why you got a email with an attached file with no 
.jpg or other proper indication but for sure your wife and you need a 
better email client that doesn't maul the attached files or, a new 
friend that sends you proper files.

    The gthumb is a wonderful software that reads the file name to learn 
how to handle the file. If the file name doesn't include a proper .xyz 
gthomb just never is even called.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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