Identifying attachment types by file name

"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I would like like exmh (or nmh) to recognize the file type of
attachments a bit better. More and more of my mail seems to contain
attachments that are MIME-type application/octet-stream when they are
Word, Excel, images, or something else. This means that they can't
quickly be opened, but must either be edited or saved to disk and then
opened.

Most apps, such as Firefox/Thunderbird, "guess" the MIME type from the
file name. (.doc, .xls, .png, etc.), but exmh does not seem to so so.

Is this something wrong in my configuration? Is there an reasonable way
to make this work better?  Something in my mailcap file, perhaps? Or
mime.types? 
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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