Ben Eastep wrote:

>When an attachement is  of type application/octet-stream, thunderbird
>figures out what to open it by some means, presumably based on the filename,
>however the open dialog greys out the "Do this automatically for files like
>this from now on."  Presumably this is since a user wouldn't want to pick a
>single helper to open ALL application/octet-streams, however it would be
>useful if the user could still edit what thunderbird does with files of
>whatever specific type thunderbird settled on.  Otherwise, with any file
>types that the user always recieves as octet-stream, there is no way for the
>user to specifiy a default handling for those files (very annoying)
>  
>
You can think of any default handling that makes sense?

Cheers,

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