Greetings enligthened ones :)

I'm writing a script that is attempting to send and recieve emails containing file attachments.

The script is designed to run over a large collection of files and send and recieve each file individually (there is a mail server on the local machine that is handling the mail itself).

My question is this: is there an easy way to work out what kind of MIME type the file about to be sent is?

The collection contains all kinds of files; from text and html files to com and exe apps. It would be nice if I didn't have to write a rather large hash of extensions => MIME Types :)

I am using MIME::Tools to encode/send/decode the emails and Net::POP3 to recieve them.

Cheers

TwistedPear

In reply to Finding out mime types... by TwistedPear

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