281918 - Cannot open certain attachment types

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Wolfgang Preuss]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050207
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050210

Opening of mail attachments does not succeed for certain types, e.g. .doc or
.pdf, whereas .xls or .txt can be opened with the affiliated application.
Does not depend on setting of attachment display.
Save of attachments is always possible.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to open an attachment of type .doc or .pdf by double clicking
   or be right click and then selecting "Open" 
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing


Expected Results:  
Open the affiliated application, e.g. Word or Acrobat Reader.

When I go back to 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050207
(three days before) this problem does not exist.

Comment 1

[Wolfgang Preuss]

Today I installed
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050212
and with this version the bug disappeared ...
Thanks,  Wolfgang

Comment 2

[Wolfgang Preuss]

With Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050627
the behaviour reappeared exactly as described in February (somewhere since
Gecko/20050613, which was working o.k.).

Comment 3

[Wolfgang Preuss]

Today I installed 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050629
and the described problem has again been solved
(as some others: direct downloading of files instead of saving link location
as; the red reportertool message line at the bottom disappeared).