On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 21:24 +0100, DB wrote: > I assume there is no way to persuade TBird/Okular to play ball with > the octet-stream? There's no good way to handle that. It's the generic description for any binary file (sound, picture, PDF, whatever), that hasn't been specifically identified. If you were to hard-configure it to presume PDF, it'd fail on the next thing that wasn't a PDF but described as being octet-stream. Wild guess: The problem email you're dealing with was generated using a Microsoft system. They've had thirty (?) years to get a grip on properly using MIME types, but haven't learnt it yet. About the only simple solutions are: Save the file, then open that. Or, pass the file to a handler that can manage sending different data types to the right applications by inspecting what the file actually is. The "gnome-open" program seems to do that, though I've only given it brief testing. *BUT* if you're going to use a handler as a middle-man, make sure its one that won't automatically execute scripts and programs, by default. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
