194832 - Mail sees attached .wav file as .wav.exe

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164816

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ralph Alvy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a; MultiZilla v1.1.32 final) Gecko/20030224
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a; MultiZilla v1.1.32 final) Gecko/20030224

Double-clicking on a .wav attachment calls the Save To dialogue, with the
attachment showing a .wav.exe extension, resulting it not being played.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Double-click on a .wav attachment
2 [review]. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Calls the Save To dialogue, with the attachment showing a .wav.exe extension,
resulting it not being played.

Expected Results:  
Obvious

Comment 1

[timeless]

The problem is probably that the file was attached as application/octet-stream
we shouldn't append .exe, that's a *bad* idea :)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dup of one of the dozens of bugs on Windows extension crap.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164816 ***