Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment
On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 15:35 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 06:32 -0500, Carpetnailz wrote: 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: Hi, it looks fine, evolution may read it properly and show a file name, not attachment.dat. Could you try to create a simple test presentation sent to you, on which the bug would be reproducible for you, and then share the email through bugzilla [1] for testing purposes, please? Bye, Milan [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Evolution Will do--probably tonight (cleveland OH time) when I get home from work. ___ 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
Interesting: when I send a .pptx from Win7 using Thunderbird the pptx comes through fine but there's also an 'attachment.dat' that Evolution sees as a plain text file. I talked to my colleague who's an Apple expert and he says he never heard of any problems like that with Apple. And when I Google 'Apple mail and application.dat' everything seems focused on receiving stuff on Apple from Windows (winmail.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
Argh! 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
Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment
On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 12:42 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On 22 November 2013 01:23, Carpetnailz carpetna...@researchintegration.org wrote: 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 Why 'sudo'? The idea is to ask what *your own* environment is going to find, not the superuser's. poc I didn't realize the query was user specific and I wanted to avoid a 'permission denied.' At any rate the result is the same when I run the query as myself. To Reid: No tnef that I can find. But that's for mail coming from M$ Outlook or Exchange Server. I don't see that it has anything to do with mail coming from Apple Mail. ___ 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 06:32 -0500, Carpetnailz wrote: 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: Hi, it looks fine, evolution may read it properly and show a file name, not attachment.dat. Could you try to create a simple test presentation sent to you, on which the bug would be reproducible for you, and then share the email through bugzilla [1] for testing purposes, please? Bye, Milan [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Evolution ___ 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 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] 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
Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment
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 ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
