mail/envelope: drop a workaround for very old libmagic versions

5.12 was released in 2013, we do not need to support it anymore.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/alot/mail/envelope.py b/alot/mail/envelope.py
index 4714b32d..a4985c7a 100644
--- a/alot/mail/envelope.py
+++ b/alot/mail/envelope.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import email
 import email.policy
 from email.message import MIMEPart
 import email.charset as charset
-import mimetypes
 from urllib.parse import unquote
 
 import gpg
@@ -221,15 +220,6 @@ class Envelope:
             data = f.read()
 
         ctype = helper.guess_mimetype(data)
-        # libmagic < 5.12 incorrectly detects excel/powerpoint files as
-        # 'application/msword' (see #179 and #186 in libmagic bugtracker)
-        # This is a workaround, based on file extension, useful as long
-        # as distributions still ship libmagic 5.11.
-        if (ctype == 'application/msword' and
-            not _libmagic_version_at_least(513)):
-            mimetype, _ = mimetypes.guess_type(path)
-            if mimetype:
-                ctype = mimetype
 
         # Set the filename parameter
         if not filename: