856230 - PDF attachments being sent as text/html instead of application/pdf

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 503309

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Mark]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 GTB7.1 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) FBSMTWB
Build ID: 20130307023931

Steps to reproduce:

Attaching pdf files to outgoing e-mail


Actual results:

Recipients cannot read the attachments because they are converted to html garbage text


Expected results:

They should have been able to read the pdf file as it was sent...

I have ensured this is a T-bird problem and not a problem with creation of the pdf file.  I can forward pdf files from other e-mail clients (e.g. web based e-mail) and then send from T-bird without incident, but if I attach the file in T-bird, it attaches it as a text/html instead of application/pdf.  

Bug 276409 addressed this, but the resolution doesn't apply to this version of T-Bird (considering this is 9 years later...)

Comment 1

[Mark]

I found the resolution elsewhere.  The fix is in the tools/options/attachments/Incoming section.  I had two MIME options for acrobat files and one was showing text/plain.  I deleted that and now it's defaulting to the correct one as application/pdf.

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

Assuming that you are the same Mark from the http://gsfn.us/t/3tpun thread in GetSatisfaction, I'm marking this as a duplicate of the identified bug report.