Viewing .jpg Pictures in Thunderbird

[Jim]

On 05/30/2009 05:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 14:45 -0400, Jim wrote:
>    
>> I think this may explain it here. Every picture shows this
>> Content-Type
>>
>> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
>>          name="ATT00049.gif"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>> Content-ID:<00bc01c9e13f$7f193f00$7221D355 at lynn>
>>      
> Didn't you say it was a JPEG file? Those headers are for an
> undifferentiated binary file whose name implies it's a GIF, which isn't
> the same thing.
>
>    
>> Thanks guy for your help I learn something new today.
>> I could say in about 50 years I would know everything there was about
>> Linux, to know it all.
>>      
> Your problem has nothing to do with Linux. The sender's email
> configuration (or host platform) is broken. They may not think it's
> broken if their Windows-using friends can see the images in messages,
> but it's still broken.
>
> poc
>
>    
Thunderbird is seeing the Attached pictures as .jpg, I noticed the .gif 
extension in Content.
You know how Windows users are, they will not admit they have problems, 
it's that damn ole Linux.