Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment
On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 08:22 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: 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? Hi, hard to tell. Could you show a message source (View-Message Source/Ctrl +U in evolution) and search for the Content-Type headers (line begins with it), and paste here all you'll see there, with surrounding couple lines, please? As an example: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=err Content-Type: text/plain; name=err; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Also, how do you receive the message, is it through POP3, IMAP, ...? Bye, Milan Thanks. Evolution seemed to choke on opening the mail with viewing Message Source, so I had to seek it out and open with gedit. Here's what I found: --Apple-Mail=_54DF1950-4BCD-4426-9730-DEB7448E058D Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=CurrentSpiritualCareGrandRoundsUnderwoodClevClinNov2013.pptx Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation; x-unix-mode=0644; x-mac-type=50505458; x-mac-hide-extension=yes; x-mac-creator=50505433; name=CurrentSpiritualCare[...].pptx Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 It then has 176000 lines like: UEsDBBQABgAIIQA7NJ3vBgQAAFFBAAATAAgCW0NvbnRlbnRfVHlwZXNdLnhtbCCiBAIooAAC AADM XMlu2zAQvRfoPxi6FjYtqU3SIk4OXU5dAiT9AEaibbVaCJFJ478vJcehbNjRMkOMLk5oiZzHN+Qb ckT58vopS[...] The strange thing is that when she sends the email w/the pptx attachment to my Windows box it opens fine in Thunderbird there. Everything on line seems to focus on Windows mail (Outlook) creating the problems for Mac Mail to receive. Here it seems to be Mac Mail creating the 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
Re: [Evolution] gnome-calendar and evolution
On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 13:06 +, Sidhant Panda wrote: Has the gnome-calendar project development been abandoned in favour of calendar management by evolution? Both apps are Evolution-Data-Server front-ends. Evolution-Data-Server manages the calendar data. The front-ends are just for presentation and user interaction. As far as I know, gnome-calendar development continues, albeit slowly from the looks of the commit log. No reason both apps can't co-exist peacefully. Matthew Barnes ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment
On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 12:47 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On 21 November 2013 11:32, Carpetnailz carpetna...@researchintegration.org wrote: Thanks. Evolution seemed to choke on opening the mail with viewing Message Source, so I had to seek it out and open with gedit. Here's what I found: --Apple-Mail=_54DF1950-4BCD-4426-9730-DEB7448E058D Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=CurrentSpiritualCareGrandRoundsUnderwoodClevClinNov2013.pptx Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation; x-unix-mode=0644; x-mac-type=50505458; x-mac-hide-extension=yes; x-mac-creator=50505433; name=CurrentSpiritualCare[...].pptx Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 If vnd. openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation isn't known to your local MIME configuration, Evo is not going to know how to open it so it's offering gedit as default. You need to add that content type to your MIME setup and tell it what app can handle it (e.g. LibreOffice). poc Thanks. This line is in my /etc/mime.types file: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation pptx Is that what's needed? If so the problem is something else. It doesn't seem to be that Evolution does not know how to open it, It's rather that Evo is not seeing the attachment for what it is but rather at 'attachment.dat'. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment
On 11/21/2013 8:23 PM, Carpetnailz wrote: On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 23:08 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On 21 November 2013 13:22, Carpetnailz carpetna...@researchintegration.org wrote: Thanks. This line is in my /etc/mime.types file: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation pptx Is that what's needed? If so the problem is something else. It doesn't seem to be that Evolution does not know how to open it, It's rather that Evo is not seeing the attachment for what it is but rather at 'attachment.dat'. Type this at a Shell prompt: xdg-mime query default application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation (all one line of course) The reply from xdg-mime tells what app is handling that MIME type in your environment. In my case it gives ark, which doesn't seem right (I use KDE). You can also use xdg-mime to set the app you want. Probably requires logging out and in again so your desktop will pick it up. Thanks. Trying that gives: [eric@ericscomputer ~]$ sudo xdg-mime query default application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation [sudo] password for eric: libreoffice-impress.desktop libreoffice-impress.desktop It looks to me like that part is right. I'm still wondering why, if it's a MIME handling problem, Evolution isn't saying I've got this .pptx file but I don't know what to do with it rather than I've got this attachment.dat file that I don't know what to do with but think is a plain text file. EB ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list Do you have any tnef library installed on your system? reid ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
