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   Richard Owlett to Richard Owlett   
   Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment   
   19 Dec 25 08:33:10   
   
   From: rowlett@access.net   
      
   On 12/19/25 8:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:   
   > On 12/15/25 10:33 AM, Schugo wrote:   
   >> Hi!   
   >>   
   >> when I click on a PDF attachment the browser opens a blank page.   
   >> When I press ENTER in the urlbar the preview shows up.   
   >> Only me or a bug?   
   >>   
   >> ciao..   
   >>   
   >    
   > Why do refer at all to "the browser opening a window"?   
   > What program are you using to read the email?   
   >    
   > I have SeaMonkey 2.53.21 installed on a Debian 12.8 system whose desktop    
   > is MATE 1.26.0 . IIRC I used Synaptic to install SeaMonkey {accepting    
   > all default choices}.   
   >    
   > I use SeaMonkey to read all emails and open USENET groups.   
   > When I open an email with an attachment and I click on its file name, a    
   > window pops up.   
   >    
   > One of its headings is "What should SeaMonkey do with this file?".   
   >    
   > It offers two choices:   
   >    open with selected tool  [from a drop-down list]   
   >              OR   
   >    save file   
   >    
   > I suggest that if you something else, offer a more detailed description    
   > of what you see.   
   >    
   > What is your OS/desktop?   
   >    
      
   Just noticed from your header:   
   > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:128.0)    
      
   I abandoned Windows back in days of WinXP. YMMV;}   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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