On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Pete Theisen wrote:
> I use t-bird 2.0.0.6 on this MEPIS 7 machine because k-mail wouldn't work. I
> can see a .jpg attachment on a message but nothing will readily display it.
> Click on it and you get a dialog box offering to open it with some default or
> something else "other" but none of them work.
>
> Can't view attached .mpg or listen to .wav either, don't know about .mpg
> because no one ever sends me one. What the???
Mail one to yourself.
> I have both M player and Km player on the machine but they don't show up in
> the t-bird dialog and if I open them independently they can't find the
> attachments. Drag and drop won't work either.
Maybe your MIME type list (or its permissions) is messed up? Look for a
file "mime.types" somewhere in /etc or maybe ~/.mime.types . Mine looks
like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20423 Jun 15 2006 /etc/mime.types
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