problem with thunderbird attachments .doc-file association

[Hugo Coolens]

I have found what the problem was. The .doc type in the preferences menu 
was linked to an soffice that did not work, I guess this was due to a 
wrong path (the path followed is not displayed). Changing it to the real 
soffice solved the problem.

regards,
hugo


On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> I thought that thunderbird respected the usual File Associations settings
> that you can set in systemsettings.  I think that is what I used, but
> maybe I'm thinking of chrome.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Hugo Coolens <coolens at kahosl.be> wrote:
>       When I have an e-mail with a docx-document as an attachment,
>       thunderbird automatically opens LibreOffice when I click the
>       attachment, when I have
>       however a doc-document I get a an error when clicking on the
>       attachment,
>       like this:
>       /tmp/OPDOC24082005-1.doc could not be opened, because the
>       associated helper application does not exist. Change the
>       association in your preferences.
>
>       So I'd like to add the .doc file extension and have
>       LibreOffice open it too but I can't find out how to do it in
>       Thunderbirds Preferences-->Attachments.
>       I'm missing an add Content Type-possibility. Maybe someone
>       here knows which file I should change manually and how to add
>       a rule for .doc-documents?
>
>       regards,
>       hugo
>
>       p.s. 1 I'm using Kubuntu Natty Narwal
>       p.s. 2 When I right click on the attachment-document I don't
>       get a drop down box, so I can't choose an application that
>       way neither
>
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