Is there any way to force Thunderbird into opening the attachments with the associated application?Or at least to open the association dialogue instead of the file open dialogue?It's really driving me nuts. The easiest way to open the attachments is to save them to disk and open them from the file manager.
Force thunderbird to open the attachment with associated app
kde;thunderbird
Security holes to the rescue!Apparently, both Thunderbird and Firefox (can be configured to) use /etc/mailcap which can in turn be used to call xdg-open, see this bug report (referring to this one including a (rogue) mailcap example), especially comment #2 on how to make it (more) secure.