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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> If the type is "application/octet-stream", then we look at the thing
> after the dot, and use that as the "real" type.
> 
> On the one hand, this is user friendly.  On the other hand, guessing
> is yucky. 

I believe guessing is the thing to do.  Unless the message is from a
Mac or BeOS user, the content-type is almost always the sending agents
best guess based on file extension, and "application/octet-stream"
means that the sending agent couldn't guess anything.  Just because
the the sending agent couldn't guess anything doesn't mean the
receiving agent can't guess the type.

> One could add a used config variable to control whether to
> do it or not, but if that defaults to nil, then that won't be very
> used friendly.

I don't think an option is necessary.