191647 - A (non-displayed) jpg from an e-mail attachment is described as a Word document in the Open dialogue box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189598

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[tho]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

A jpg file in an attached e-mail message is not displayed (separate bug report)
so an attempt is made to open the file via right-click context display on the
file icon displayed in the attachment window of the e-mail display.  A dialogue
box appears with the jpg file name to which ".doc" has been appended, together
with the message 'You have chosen to download a file of type: "Microsoft Word
Document"...'  The only choices given are to open the file with Windows Explorer
or to save the file to disk.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the e-mail.
2. Attempt to open the jpg attachment.
3.
Actual Results:  
See "Details" above.

Expected Results:  
Open the file as a jpg.

Mozilla has been designated to open most files of the type which can be selected
in Mozilla, but eml files have been assigned to Outlook Express pending
resolution of Bug 11076.

Comment 1

[tho]

Attachment: eml file containing eml attachment which contains jpg file

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

  Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
      name="iraq-explained1.jpg"

is what the mail says.  Do you have "application/octet-stream" associated with
the ".doc" extension in your helper app preferences by chance?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Reporter says "yes".

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189598 ***