121208 - PDF documents sent as text/plain

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 93991

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

[Colin Guthrie]

I have found that PDF documents are often sent as text/plain rather than
application/pdf or application/x-pdf when attached to an email message

I think this is due to the PDF's being generated under linux by pdflatex. This
means that the header of the PDF file is plain text and I think this must
confuse mozilla into thinking it is text.

This has resulted in several problems when sending attached pdfs to others
(especially if they use mozilla also, as the attached document is shown in the
mail preview pane, although is obviously total gibberish if you don't have a PDF
interpreter in your head). When you try to open the attachment, because it is of
type text/plain, Mozilla tries to display it itself rather than use acroread.

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

[e-mail] what version of Mozilla are you using?  This appears to be fixed
in recent mozilla versions (see bug 93991)

Note: please *always* include your build ID when filing bugs.  Read
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html

Comment 2

[Colin Guthrie]

Yes sorry. My search was obviously not as thorough as it could be.

The problem is fixed by adding an entry to the /etc/mime.types file.

I appologise for the wasted time.

As for my version information, I thought that as the submission page printed out
my version/build information, that it would also add that as a hidden field when
submitting the bug. For interest, it is 0.9.6 (2001112012) although I have had
the same results in 0.9.7 too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93991 ***

Comment 3

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

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