[ale] Thunderbird attahcements don't work, anyone else made it work?

S C C scc4fun at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 11:02:55 EST 2006


On 11/8/06, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Jim.
>
> Well, the only problem with that is that Thunderbird never gives me an
> option to tell him what to do with the attachment when I double click on
> it.  Scratching my nose is more rewarding than double clicking.  I even
> tried a right click/open, but that does nothing.  It just ignores me.
>
> Jim.
>
> Jim Sculley wrote:
> > Apparently, the easiest wasy to add an action is to send yourself a
> > message with the type of attachment you want to add.
> >
> > Jim S.
> >
> >

Jim,

It sounds like you may have thunderbird set to automatically save
files instead of opening them. This article in the mozillazine kb may
help:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Actions_for_attachment_file_types


SCC

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