How to determine type of attachement

[GoumJer]

Hi,

is anybody aware of a way to determine what type of file is attached to a message?

I’m already stripping all attachemnts into a specific directory, but I would like to split them based on file-type (like text, excel, word, etc.) Checking on file-extention is not save enough, I need a more solid solution.

Thanks,

Jeroen

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[Support 1a]

I am not aware of any other way to determine attachment types, other than looking at the file extensions. What aspect of this approach is not robust enough?

Regards,

Advansys Support

[GoumJer]

Our employees are expected to send time-sheet (which is in excel) to HQ as attachement. It turns out that we receive quite a number of files which has been saved without the extention, so I would like to determine the filetype based on the contents of the file.

On a linux machine I could use the file-command to give the file-type, but on windows/formativ?

Regards,

Jeroen

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Originally posted by Support 1:
I am not aware of any other way to determine attachment types, other than looking at the file extensions. What aspect of this approach is not robust enough?

Regards,

Advansys Support

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[Support 1a]

There is no inherent method in Formativ that will tell you the file type based on the content of a file. I suspect you would need to investigate the third party market for a tool that identifies files based on content.

Advansys Support

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