Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

[Jim]

On 05/30/2009 01:54 PM, g wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>
>    
>> I have one person that sends me .jpg pictures in a Email and thunderbird
>> can not display them ,  when I try to Open them I can only "Save" them
>> to my Picture folder to view them. That person uses WindowsXP.
>>
>> I recieve .jpg pictures from every one else and I can view them in
>> Thunderbird.
>>      
> have a look at;
>    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2307
> which may handle problem.
>
> main problem is as kevin is telling you, if mime type is written wrong in
> email, thunderbird will have problem knowing what to do with attachment.
>
> use<ctrl+u>  to look at full email. you should have below message body
> something similar to;
>
> |>   --------------090209040005060100010505
> |>   Content-Type: image/jpeg;
> |>    name="tbird app local folders.JPG"
> |>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> |>   Content-Disposition: inline;
> |>    filename="tbird app local folders.JPG"
>
> this is how thunderbird knows that attachment is a jpeg file.
>
> being that sender is using ms xp, there is your major problem. ms does not
> comply with email rfc. if sender does not has file with a '.jpg' extension,
> ask them to try sending with extension name.
>
>
>    
I think this may explain it here. Every picture shows this Content-Type

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
	name="ATT00049.gif"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID:<00bc01c9e13f$7f193f00$7221D355 at lynn>

Thanks guy for your help I learn something new today.
I could say in about 50 years I would know everything there was about Linux, to know it all.

NOT!!!