[Bug 199537] look up MIME type from file name for application/octet-stream attachment

[Jonathan Marten]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199537


Jonathan Marten <jjm at keelhaul.me.uk> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|jjm at keelhaul.me.uk          |
            Summary|KMail doesn't respect KDE   |look up MIME type from file
                   |file associations           |name for
                   |                            |application/octet-stream
                   |                            |attachment
           Severity|normal                      |wishlist




--- Comment #3 from Jonathan Marten <jjm keelhaul me uk>  2009-07-09 16:26:24 ---
What should we do? - good question.  There was a fix a long time ago (bug
35836) to get the MIME type from the file name for unknown MIME types, but that
doesn't solve the problem where the specified type is application/octet-stream
(i.e known but meaningless).  Obviously KMail could look at the file name in
this case, but that would give the wrong information in the case where the file
really is meaningless binary data and application/octet-stream is the
appropriate type.

Not sure whether MIME type detection by contents magic could ever work here,
especially with IMAP.

Changing bug to a wishlist, since KMail is working as intended.

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