Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-23 Thread Eric Beversluis
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

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-23 Thread Eric Beversluis
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

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-23 Thread Carpetnailz
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

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-22 Thread Carpetnailz
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

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-22 Thread Milan Crha
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.

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-21 Thread Carpetnailz
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

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-21 Thread Carpetnailz
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

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-21 Thread Reid Thompson
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:

[Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-20 Thread Carpetnailz
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

[Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-20 Thread Carpetnailz
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

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat: pptx showing as plain text attachment

2013-11-20 Thread Milan Crha
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.

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2010-05-18 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:52 -0400, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: ..you can also look there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNEF (there is a list a software to decode winmail.dat at the end of the page) You might also want to encourage your correspondents to use Internet standards

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2010-05-15 Thread Christopher Kurtis Koeber
-Original Message- From: evolution-list-boun...@gnome.org [mailto:evolution-list- boun...@gnome.org] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Callaghan Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:39 AM To: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:32 +0900

[Evolution] attachment.dat

2010-05-14 Thread jd
I am receiving attachment from (apparently) from microsoft servers where the attachments are called attachment.dat and I am unable to view them. What sort of processing do I need to perform on them in order to be able to view them? ___ evolution-list

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2010-05-14 Thread nomnex
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 18:03 -0700, jd wrote: I am receiving attachment from (apparently) from microsoft servers where the attachments are called attachment.dat and I am unable to view them. What sort of processing do I need to perform on them in order to be able to view them?

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2010-05-14 Thread nomnex
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 18:03 -0700, jd wrote: I am receiving attachment from (apparently) from microsoft servers where the attachments are called attachment.dat and I am unable to view them. What sort of processing do I need to perform on them in order to be able to view them? ..you

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2010-05-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:32 +0900, nomnex wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 18:03 -0700, jd wrote: I am receiving attachment from (apparently) from microsoft servers where the attachments are called attachment.dat and I am unable to view them. What sort of processing do I need to perform on

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-07 Thread Reid Thompson
Todd Hicks wrote: As I say, other email apps I've used (notably Thunderbird) strip the markup in the reading pane for messages of content-type text/html . Yes the output may not be pretty, but it's there and readable, not wrapped up in an attachment. In the case of Outlook there is an

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Sylvia Sánchez wrote: El jue, 05-11-2009 a las 10:11 -0500, Reid Thompson escribió: On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 13:06 -0200, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: But what exactly is a *.dat file? What it does or contain? there are a couple of threads in the past several weeks that explain the .dat file

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-05 Thread Todd Hicks
? It's not an issue of offence as much as it is policy. -Original Message- From: Pete Biggs p...@biggs.org.uk To: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:03:36 + Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) I'd still like to know what

[Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-04 Thread Todd Hicks
I just started using Evolution 2.28.1. Messages I receive from Monster.com come as Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 The subject is utf-8 encoded also and is interpreted properly, but the body is interpreted as attachment.dat, and when I view the source the body appears as gibberish

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-04 Thread Todd Hicks
I forgot to mention I have the Mail Preferences HTML Messages Plain Text Mode to Only ever show PLAIN. -Original Message- From: Todd Hicks electronjoc...@hotmail.com Reply-to: electronjoc...@hotmail.com To: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: [Evolution] attachment.dat Date: Wed, 04 Nov

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-04 Thread Peter N. Spotts
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:59:15 -0500 Todd Hicks electronjoc...@hotmail.com wrote: I just started using Evolution 2.28.1. Messages I receive from Monster.com come as Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 The subject is utf-8 encoded also and is interpreted properly, but the body is

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-04 Thread Todd Hicks
source though it is readable HTML, unlike the UTF-8 message which, as I mentioned, is getting binaried. -Original Message- From: Peter N. Spotts pspo...@alum.mit.edu To: evolution-list@gnome.org Cc: electronjoc...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-04 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 09:06 -0500, Todd Hicks wrote: I forgot to mention I have the Mail Preferences HTML Messages Plain Text Mode to Only ever show PLAIN. Hi, yes, that's doing it. It couldn't find the text/plain part, and hidden your text/html part (the only part being in the mail)

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-04 Thread ElectronJockey
: [Evolution] attachment.dat Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:50:49 +0100 On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 09:06 -0500, Todd Hicks wrote: I forgot to mention I have the Mail Preferences HTML Messages Plain Text Mode to Only ever show PLAIN. Hi, yes, that's doing it. It couldn't find the text/plain part

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-04 Thread ElectronJockey
To: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:50:49 +0100 On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 09:06 -0500, Todd Hicks wrote: I forgot to mention I have the Mail Preferences HTML Messages Plain Text Mode to Only ever show PLAIN. Hi, yes, that's doing

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-04 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:44 -0500, ElectronJockey wrote: But why then, when I reply to the message can I read the original even though I'm composing plain text? Seems like, whatever code handles the reply is parsing the text from the HTML source. Why doesn't/can't the reading pane do this?

Re: [Evolution] attachment.dat

2009-11-04 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:50 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 09:06 -0500, Todd Hicks wrote: I forgot to mention I have the Mail Preferences HTML Messages Plain Text Mode to Only ever show PLAIN. Hi, yes, that's doing it. It couldn't find the text/plain part, and