diff --git a/inc/inc.Utils.php b/inc/inc.Utils.php
index 68235566d..e13394421 100644
--- a/inc/inc.Utils.php
+++ b/inc/inc.Utils.php
@@ -395,34 +395,6 @@ function getFilenameByDocname($content) { /* {{{ */
 	return mb_ereg_replace("([^\w\s\d\-_~,;\[\]\(\).])", '', $filename);
 } /* }}} */
 
-/**
- * Return the mimetype of a given file
- *
- * This functions uses finfo but will correct some mimetypes which are
- * not propperly determined or could be more specific, e.g. text/plain
- * which is actually text/markdown. In thoses cases
- * the file extension will be taken into account.
- *
- * @param string $filename name of file on disc
- * @return string mimetype
- */
-function getMimeType($filename) { /* {{{ */
-	$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
-	$mimetype = finfo_file($finfo, $filename);
-
-	switch($mimetype) {
-	case 'application/octet-stream':
-	case 'text/plain':
-		$lastDotIndex = strrpos($filename, ".");
-		if($lastDotIndex === false) $fileType = ".";
-		else $fileType = substr($filename, $lastDotIndex);
-		if($fileType == '.md')
-			$mimetype = 'text/markdown';
-		break;
-	}
-	return $mimetype;
-} /* }}} */
-
 function getLogger($prefix='', $mask=PEAR_LOG_INFO) { /* {{{ */
 	global $settings;