93991 - Some binary attachments receive text/plain mime type

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect, P2)

Description

[J.P. Martin-Flatin]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080104

When you attach a pdf file, the content type of the MIME part is mistakenly set
to text/plain. It should be application/pdf. As a result, most mailers can't
read Mozilla 0.9.3's pdf attachments.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. type a short email message and attach a pdf file
2. send the message to yourself
3. move your incoming message from your inbox to a file that you can edit
4. edit the incoming message: you will see that the MIME part with the pdf file
has a wrong content type


Actual Results:  Instead of showing up as an attachment, the pdf file shows up
as binary data at the end of your message.

Expected Results:  The pdf file should show up as an attachment

I've checked that my $HOME/.mailcap looks good

Comment 1

[kgonzale]

I have duplicated this, and also noted that, even if you input the MIME type for
pdf's in Mozilla, it still will not set it to the correct MIME type when sending
it as an attachment.

From what I've tested, currently Mozilla sets all attachments to either
text/plain or application/octet-stream.  This happens even if you specify the
MIME types in Mozilla.

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

*** Bug 87122 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Confirming.  Marking ->NEW.  Nominating for 1.0 since this is a pretty big
issue.  Nominating for catfood.

See bug 87122 for further information on this bug.

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Changing summary for clarification. This is not limited to PDF attachments.

Can someone take a look at this?

Comment 5

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

*** Bug 99330 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

*** Bug 88542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[timothy.keitt]

This also happens in 9.1.

Comment 8

[Greg Onufer]

seen on platform Sun/Solaris

Comment 9

[E.deWilde]

This problem no longer occurs for me in mozilla 0.9.4 when properly using
mailcap and mime.types.

I installed mozilla in /usr/local/mozilla
mailcap and mime.types are located in /etc

In file /usr/local/mozilla/defaults/pref/unix.js I filled in the correct path for
mime.types and mailcap so that it reads:

pref("helpers.global_mime_types_file", "/etc/mime.types");
pref("helpers.global_mailcap_file", "/etc/mailcap");

Furthermore I had to make the following entry in /etc/mime.types

application/pdf                 pdf 

in order to make in send out in the correct mime type                          
                 

In /etc/mailcap I added 

application/pdf; kghostview %s;  test=test -n "$DISPLAY"

The entry in /etc/mailcap is not nescesarry for setting the correct outgoing
mime-type, it only makes ghostview open the attachment when clicking on it, this
can also be done by defining the right helper application in mozilla.

Comment 10

[E.deWilde]

Use of mime.types and mailcap works for other filetypes too
I tested xls, doc, eps, ps and they all work fine now

Comment 11

[Denis Antrushin]

WORKSFORME with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20011002

Comment 12

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

per user comment, WFM

Comment 13

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Reopen per report request. Seth, can you take a look at this problem and give us
your advise. Thanks

Comment 14

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to sspitzer for further investigation about mime type problem on Linux.

Comment 15

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

email from thr reporter:
This bug appears to be fixed in Mozilla 0.9.5, at least for pdf files. I cannot
test Mozilla 0.9.6 with Windows 98 because it bombs out immediately after launch.

As far as I am concerned, you can close bug 93991. As Christopher Aillon
aggregated many bug reports into this one, you may want to check that other
problems are fixed as well before closing this bug.

Thanks for your help
J.P. Martin-Flatin

Comment 16

[Colin Guthrie]

*** Bug 121208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Trix Supremo]

verified wfm. unable to duplicate problem with latest mozilla trunk build 2002022703