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Subject: Re: PPS and thunderbird
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S=E9bastien Morand <seb.morand@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm using thunderbird to read my mail and I'm not able to open
> directly the attachments ".pps". Actually I get a lot of file like
> this for my work, and it's quite boring to have to save them in a
> directory and then read them with openoffice.
>
> When I try to read them zith tunderbird, the mime type is not
> recognized, this is an "unknown" type and the application proposed is
> mplayer (don't ask why...).
>
> Then i could choose the right application and open it, but the button
> remember the choice is not available, so I have to choose manually the
> program evertytime, this is also quite boring.
>
> So my questions are:
> Why pps file are not recognized as powerpoint file?
> Why am I not able to keep remember the choice to open .pps file with open=
office?

I don't have a recent copy of Thunderbird at hand to check with, but
I remember Thunderbird having a configuration screen for "Attachments"
which (among other things) let you configure an "action" for different
file types.  It probably depends on MIME types rather than file
extensions, though, so if you are getting these ".pps" files with the
wrong MIME type, you have a different problem.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/