I use a site that supposedly contains all of the file types known in the world. 
http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
I have used this as a reference to help others do what you are doing.
I rarely get feedback once they have the info but I hope this helps.


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Mitch Rerek
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West Virginia University
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Hi all-

I am feeling rather foolish, but I have no idea how to go about getting this information independently, because I don't even know what the thing I am looking for is called.

I am trying to allow specific attachments through on certain lists, and I found the documentation for how to do that. I think I have done this correctly:

attachments= yes,image/gif,application/*msword

Assuming that is true, and I have done this bit correctly (it seems to work), the thing I need help with is this. Where is a reference so that I can determine the correct nomenclature for defining the file types? It was sheer luck that these were in the examples in the L-Soft documentation, but if I want to allow/disallow a variety of other file types, I am not sure where I can find the precise terminology.

Can anyone point me to a resource that defines the correct naming conventions?

TIA!

Shannon  :-)

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