Aaaaargh! My apologies to everyone. It turns out that the emails I was having trouble with have two attachments and the second one is the proper pptx that does open in Impress. What screwed me up was that the drop-down list only showed the options for the plain text document so I never noticed that there were two attachments. Too dumb.
On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 18:20 -0500, Carpetnailz wrote: > My wife sent me a power point file from her Mac using Mac mail but it > came through to Evo 3.8.5 on Fedora 19 as a plain text attachment called > attachment.dat that Evo wanted to open in gedit. What's happening here? > > On line I find discussion of things arriving at .dat files from Windows > operating systems, but why would this happen from Mac Lion using the > default Mac mail system? It doesn't happen when she sends the same > attachment to my Win 7 box. And she's sent me Word and PowerPoint files > in the past without this problem. > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
