Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Paul Cartwright sent:
when I click on a PDF in a thunderbird email, it starts to open a
window, then crashes. once I save the attachment to my HD,
double-click opens it.. Fedora21..
As a test, you could try changing the default application to something
like gnome-open, or xdg-open (which are a file handler utilities). Your
emailer would palm off the file to the handler, and *it* would open it
with the default system application for the type of file it is. That
may help you isolate whether it's a Thunderbird problem, or something
else.
That sort of thing can also help with malformed content, such as emails
that don't say the attached file is a PDF file, but describe it as being
some unknown type of binary file. The handler will inspect the file,
for you.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
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