Re: Adobe Acrobat Can't Find the pdf File When Trying to Display an Email Attachment in Thunderbird Daily

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On Thu, 2023-02-09 at 08:52 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> The other thing I found strange is, I have Thunderbird Daily configured 
> to prompt for download locations, and when I click on the pdf attachment 
> in the mail I get prompted to open it in the default app or save it. In 
> the default app drop down in that dialogue, when the default app was 
> Ocular, if I select "Other" to select a different app, Acrobat does not 
> appear in the list of selectable apps even though it is specified the 
> app list in the pdf application association. 

Is this for some, or all, PDFs?

A common problem with dealing with attachments is when they're sent
using the wrong mime-type.  Files are supposed to be sent with a
description of what type of file they are, and the recipient is
supposed to act upon that information.  It's not supposed to guess from
the filename, nor snoop into the file to work it out.

PDFs ought to be sent as:  application/pdf

However some senders may be set up badly, and just use the generic
"application/binary-octet" that means some unknown binary file.
 
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