180238 - Mail attachments will not open.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 171441

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Brian Fairey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Cannot open mail attachments typically pdf files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.double click on attachment
2 [review].
3.

Actual Results:  
a box opens briefly showing the file name.

Expected Results:  
Opened the file.

Comment 1

[Sean Vickery]

Similar thing is happening to me since I installed 1.2 beta over my 1.1R, but
with Microsoft Word documents.  PDF files open okay for me.

Prolly some screwy configuration problem I guess.  Here's where I've looked:  My
computer's configured handling of .doc files looks like the out-of-the-box
use-winword-via-DDE settings, which I don't recall having edited.  I don't have
any helper applications set.

Mozilla 1.2 beta, Build ID 2002101612 on Windows 2000.

Comment 2

[Sean Vickery]

Oops, found the main thread for this bug, 171441, and I guess this should be
marked as a dup of that one.  Deleting compreg.dat while mozilla isn't running
is a workaround that works for me.  

Comment 3

[Michael Gabriel]

well then

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171441 ***

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup