Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1) Installed from: RedHat RPMs OS: Linux Some popular Mail Client from Redmond sets the MIME-type of complete forwarded emails to "application/octet-stream" and not to "message/rfc822" as e.g. kmail does. If someone saves a complete mail to a file and attaches it to another mail the correct mimetype gets lost too. I haven't found a way to open such mails with kmail. If I try the "open with" dialog and enter "kmail" I get a new message window with a mail to "/tmp/kde-gerd/kmailTEQbKa.3/forwarded message.eml"... the kmail in kde 3.0 could open such mails without hassle.
example mail? I hear of that problem for the first time
Created attachment 2828 [details] testcase sorry for the delay - had some holiday...
The attached mail is shown with 0 byte size. Something is indeed wrong.
I can reproduce that problem with KDE4.1 Anyways, I'm not sure if this is a kmail issue, as it is caused by the wrong mimetype set by another MUA.
I am facing the same problem with KDE 4.2 on Kubuntu Intrepid. In my case, a word document in a forwarded message has a MIME type of application/octet-stream. There has to be a simple solution as saving the attachment to disk "restores" its MIME type or at least makes it openable by a simple click.
Closing, as the original mail here in the bug report has an invalid mimetype.