Does such an app exist??

[SteveTetch]

We regularly get attachments to message coming through our gateway that, somewhere along the route, have been stripped of their suffix or otherwise renamed. They're mostly graphics files - an email that started life was HTML, with a company logo graphic in the signature block, perhaps, ends up (who knows how?) as a plain text email with an attachment named 'Picture (Enhanced Metafile)', and no suffix. I save it to the desktop and try a variety of extensions - .jpg, .wmf, .png etc, etc. - and sometimes I'm lucky and a picture is visible.

Mostly, though, I fail. What I would like is a program that could evaluate such a suffix-free file and tell me what it is (and, possibly, if it's an unusual format, what program could make sense of it). I think I vaguely remember something like this from many years ago, but that may be self-delusion and/or a playful memory. Google searches are inconclusive, (but then I'm probably not using the right search strings).

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Thanks in advance (and apologies if it's a lame question).

Regards,

Steve

[HansV]

See for example:

What File is That? How To Identify Unrecognized Files Types and Format » Raymond.CC Blog

[SteveTetch]

Thanks, Hans. I'll download that and have a play.

Steve