Viewing Attached Pictures in Thunderbird ?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Jim writes:

> Thunderbird-3.0b3pre.
> 
> When getting  pictures in Attachment, I can't view them in Thunderbird, 
> have to "Save As" in home directory to view *.jpg pictures.
> 
> 
> In the email it's showing the;
> 
> Content-Type    Application/Octet-Stream
>                            name= "*.jpg "
> 
> How can I setup in Preferences to display this "Octet Stream" by  using 
> Gwenview to view pictures.

You can't. "application/octet-stream" is a generic MIME type. It's used only 
when a known MIME type is not known, for a given file.

This is a bug in the sender's mail software, for failing to properly assign 
a correct MIME type to an attachment.

> These Damn Emails are probably  coming from Outlook and Thunderbird 
> can't view attached pictures.

Examining the headers of this message should identify the buggy mail client.


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