201948 - Change the extension of each attachment: filename.ext to filename.ext.c

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 189598

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Marco Aldegheri]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.02 (Windows NT 5.0; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

Since the first time I tried to open an .c attachment with Newsmail of Mozilla 
1.1 (without saving it first on the hd), every attach is opened with MS Visual 
C++.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an email in preview


2. Double click on the e.g. pippo.xls attachment I wish to open


3. See the Open Window titled "Opening pippo.xls.c" 



Actual Results:  
If I click on "Open it with the default application (Excel)" I see MS Visual C++ 
trying to open the excel document...


Expected Results:  
No ".c" extension attached


The first time I received a .c attachment I used the "Open it with" option and I 
choosed the c:\program.....exe of the MS Visual C++ application.


Since that I always have to 


1. save the attachments on my hard drive 


2. rename the attachment removing the last ".c" extension


3. double click on the renamed file


Any upgrade I tried hoping to remove this problem (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4a) didn't 
solve this problem.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Go into your helper app preferences, and remove the association of ".c" to
"application/octet-stream".

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

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

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