Opening attachments with Thunderbird

[Wudu]

Hi!

When i try to open attachments, it sometimes recognizes the filetype and opens it with the right application (kpdf/soffice/gwenview/...), but sometimes not, even if the attachment is from the same mail and source. I have to manually choose /usr/bin/*. That's a little bit annoying.

Does anybody know the reason and/or a solution?

Greetings,
Wudu

[Fintan]

Re: Opening attachments with Thunderbird

what are the file types that don't open?

[Wudu]

Re: Opening attachments with Thunderbird

As I wrote, all sort of files. .pdf, .jpg, .doc,... Sometimes it recognizes which application to use, sometimes not.

[Wudu]

Re: Opening attachments with Thunderbird

does nobody has an idea ?

[Fintan]

Re: Opening attachments with Thunderbird

Try some of the suggestions here:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3088202.0

found using the search "thingy"

[damjan]

Re: Opening attachments with Thunderbird

You could try simple thing first:
Edit-Settings-Addons (5th icon) and you can select all the programs with whom TB will open files.
I personally choose program kpdf for PDF documents etc..