On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 09:15:23AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 05Jun2017 22:12, Andries E. Brouwer <andries.brou...@cwi.nl> wrote: >> A moment ago I sent 8 images as attachment with mutt. >> Three were garbled on arrival. > > Just for some more context, did the files lack a useful file extension?
No mime-type was known. No mechanism using mime-types could work. Using information when it is available is a separate discussion. In the present discussion one only has the file contents. Andries
