Viewing Attached Pictures in Thunderbird ?

[Jim]

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.

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

[Sam Varshavchik]

Post by Jim
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.

Post by Jim
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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[Jim]

Post by Sam Varshavchik

Post by Jim
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.

Post by Jim
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.

Not just a "buggy mail client".

You tell a STUPID Windows user he has got a buggy mail client, he will
look at you like your a moron, when he feels he can view the pictures.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 15:05:25 -0400,

Post by Jim
You tell a STUPID Windows user he has got a buggy mail client, he will
look at you like your a moron, when he feels he can view the pictures.

It's not just mistyped images. I regularly get stuff that appears to have been
encoded using windows-1252, but declared to be ascii or iso8859-1.
I see that even the standards are being corrupted by this crap now:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#character-encodings-0

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 15:05:25 -0400,

Post by Jim
You tell a STUPID Windows user he has got a buggy mail client, he will
look at you like your a moron, when he feels he can view the pictures.

It's not just mistyped images. I regularly get stuff that appears to have been
encoded using windows-1252, but declared to be ascii or iso8859-1.
I see that even the standards are being corrupted by this crap now:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#character-encodings-0

[Jim]

Post by Sam Varshavchik

Post by Jim
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.

Post by Jim
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.

Not just a "buggy mail client".

You tell a STUPID Windows user he has got a buggy mail client, he will
look at you like your a moron, when he feels he can view the pictures.

[Tim]

Post by Jim
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.

If you're going to set up anything to handle octet-stream data, it needs
to be something that can handle all-manner of file types (e.g. a handler
that determines file types for itself, then opens it with the
appropriate program). Because that generic data type means "this is
some sort of binary," it could be used for JPEGs, PDFs, MP3s, even text.

Using "gnome-open" might be an appropriate handler, but I've not tested
it.

[Ed Greshko]

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

If I get these types of emails I don't need to "save" them. They won't
display "inline" but if I double click on the attachment it will launch
the "display" application. This is controlled by the mimeTypes.rdf file
in your thunderbird profile. I've attached mine as at .txt file and I
think it will make it to this list....
--
meetings, n.: A place where minutes are kept and hours are lost.
Mei-Mei.Greshko at greshko.com

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[Jim]

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.

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

[Sam Varshavchik]

Post by Jim
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.

Post by Jim
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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[Tim]

Post by Jim
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.

If you're going to set up anything to handle octet-stream data, it needs
to be something that can handle all-manner of file types (e.g. a handler
that determines file types for itself, then opens it with the
appropriate program). Because that generic data type means "this is
some sort of binary," it could be used for JPEGs, PDFs, MP3s, even text.

Using "gnome-open" might be an appropriate handler, but I've not tested
it.

[Ed Greshko]

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

If I get these types of emails I don't need to "save" them. They won't
display "inline" but if I double click on the attachment it will launch
the "display" application. This is controlled by the mimeTypes.rdf file
in your thunderbird profile. I've attached mine as at .txt file and I
think it will make it to this list....
--
meetings, n.: A place where minutes are kept and hours are lost.
Mei-Mei.Greshko at greshko.com http://youtu.be/cCSz_koUhSg
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