Thunderbird & Okular question

[Kevin Kofler]

Tim wrote:
> There's no good way to handle that.  It's the generic description for
> any binary file (sound, picture, PDF, whatever), that hasn't been
> specifically identified.  If you were to hard-configure it to presume
> PDF, it'd fail on the next thing that wasn't a PDF but described as
> being octet-stream.

They could figure out the MIME type client side using the same shared-mime-
info-based mechanisms which are used after saving the file (extension, 
sometimes file contents), either just for generic application/octet-stream 
attachments or generally ignoring the sent MIME type.

        Kevin Kofler