Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:59:47 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Morand?= <seb.morand@gmail.com> Subject: Re: PPS and thunderbird Message-ID: <486A9AC3.5020308@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <44y74ltye7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <4867C63F.30207@gmail.com> <44y74ltye7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Sébastien Morand <seb.morand@gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm using thunderbird to read my mail and I'm not able to open >> directly the attachments ".pps". Actually I get a lot of file like >> this for my work, and it's quite boring to have to save them in a >> directory and then read them with openoffice. >> >> When I try to read them zith tunderbird, the mime type is not >> recognized, this is an "unknown" type and the application proposed is >> mplayer (don't ask why...). >> >> Then i could choose the right application and open it, but the button >> remember the choice is not available, so I have to choose manually the >> program evertytime, this is also quite boring. >> >> So my questions are: >> Why pps file are not recognized as powerpoint file? >> Why am I not able to keep remember the choice to open .pps file with openoffice? > > I don't have a recent copy of Thunderbird at hand to check with, but > I remember Thunderbird having a configuration screen for "Attachments" > which (among other things) let you configure an "action" for different > file types. It probably depends on MIME types rather than file > extensions, though, so if you are getting these ".pps" files with the > wrong MIME type, you have a different problem. > In Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Edit/Preferences/Attachments/View & Edit Actions to see a list of filetypes. But until you download a file of a particular type it won't appear in the list. I think when you download a filetype for the first time you get a dialogue box asking what to do and if this action should be used in future. Chris
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