210958 - Received email attachments get '.JPG' appended to end of file name

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 189598

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Howard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Double-clicking the attachment name in a received email will open the "Opening
filename" dialog.  In my tests, this has been either a .DOC or .PDF file (I have
both Word and Acrobat installed on my computer).  

The dialog title ends up saying "Opening Test.doc.jpg".  The default option
selected is always "Open it with C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe".  If I click on
"Open it with the default application (Word)", I get a browser window with the
following message: 
"The image "file:///C:/DOCUME~1/HOWARD~1/LOCALS~1/TEMP/Test.doc.jpg cannot be
displayed because it contains errors."

If from the "Opening file" dialog, I click 'Save it to disk', then the "Save As"
dialog has "Test.doc.jpg" as the filename.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Should default to first option if the application is known.
Should not append ".jpg" to the end of the file name.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Like bug 205381 a dupe of bug 189598?

Reporter, look at your helper applications for application\octet-stream. Delete
the entry.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

delete the octet-stream entry in preferences/navigator/helper applicationbs

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

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified DUP.