diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index c60108f..368749f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -144,10 +144,7 @@ Djrill supports most of the functionality of Django's `EmailMessage`_ and
   for logging. To send a single message to multiple recipients without exposing
   their email addresses to each other, simply include them all in the "to" list
   and leave ``preserve_recipients`` set to False.)
-* **Attachments:** Djrill includes a message's attachments, but only with the
-  mimetypes "text/\*", "image/\*", or "application/pdf" (since that is all
-  Mandrill allows). Any other attachment types will raise
-  ``djrill.NotSupportedByMandrillError`` when you attempt to send the message.
+* **Attachments:** Djrill includes a message's attachments.
 * **Headers:** Djrill accepts additional headers, but only ``Reply-To`` and
   ``X-*`` (since that is all that Mandrill accepts). Any other extra headers
   will raise ``djrill.NotSupportedByMandrillError`` when you attempt to send the
diff --git a/djrill/mail/backends/djrill.py b/djrill/mail/backends/djrill.py
index ddf1937..74e835d 100644
--- a/djrill/mail/backends/djrill.py
+++ b/djrill/mail/backends/djrill.py
@@ -233,18 +233,6 @@ class DjrillBackend(BaseEmailBackend):
         if mimetype is None:
             mimetype = DEFAULT_ATTACHMENT_MIME_TYPE
 
-        # Mandrill silently filters attachments with unsupported mimetypes.
-        # This can be confusing, so we raise an exception instead.
-        (main, sub) = mimetype.lower().split('/')
-        attachment_allowed = (
-            main == 'text' or main == 'image'
-            or (main == 'application' and sub == 'pdf'))
-        if not attachment_allowed:
-            raise NotSupportedByMandrillError(
-                "Invalid attachment mimetype '%s'. Mandrill only supports "
-                "text/*, image/*, and application/pdf attachments."
-                % mimetype)
-
         try:
             content_b64 = b64encode(content)
         except TypeError:
diff --git a/djrill/tests/test_mandrill_send.py b/djrill/tests/test_mandrill_send.py
index bd875da..43ea351 100644
--- a/djrill/tests/test_mandrill_send.py
+++ b/djrill/tests/test_mandrill_send.py
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ class DjrillBackendTests(DjrillBackendMockAPITestCase):
         mimeattachment.set_payload(pdf_content)
         email.attach(mimeattachment)
 
+        # Attachment type that wasn't supported in early Mandrill releases:
+        ppt_content = b"PPT\xb4 pretend this is a valid ppt file"
+        email.attach(filename="presentation.ppt", content=ppt_content,
+                     mimetype="application/vnd.ms-powerpoint")
+
         email.send()
 
         def decode_att(att):
@@ -121,7 +126,7 @@ class DjrillBackendTests(DjrillBackendMockAPITestCase):
 
         data = self.get_api_call_data()
         attachments = data['message']['attachments']
-        self.assertEqual(len(attachments), 3)
+        self.assertEqual(len(attachments), 4)
         self.assertEqual(attachments[0]["type"], "text/plain")
         self.assertEqual(attachments[0]["name"], "test.txt")
         self.assertEqual(decode_att(attachments[0]["content"]).decode('ascii'),
@@ -132,6 +137,10 @@ class DjrillBackendTests(DjrillBackendMockAPITestCase):
         self.assertEqual(attachments[2]["type"], "application/pdf")
         self.assertEqual(attachments[2]["name"], "") # none
         self.assertEqual(decode_att(attachments[2]["content"]), pdf_content)
+        self.assertEqual(attachments[3]["type"],
+                         "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint")
+        self.assertEqual(attachments[3]["name"], "presentation.ppt")
+        self.assertEqual(decode_att(attachments[3]["content"]), ppt_content)
 
     def test_extra_header_errors(self):
         email = mail.EmailMessage('Subject', 'Body', 'from@example.com',
@@ -174,24 +183,6 @@ class DjrillBackendTests(DjrillBackendMockAPITestCase):
             msg="Mandrill API should not be called when send fails silently")
         self.assertEqual(sent, 0)
 
-    def test_attachment_errors(self):
-        # Mandrill silently strips attachments that aren't text/*, image/*,
-        # or application/pdf. We want to alert the Djrill user:
-        with self.assertRaises(NotSupportedByMandrillError):
-            msg = mail.EmailMessage('Subject', 'Body',
-                'from@example.com', ['to@example.com'])
-            # This is the default mimetype, but won't work with Mandrill:
-            msg.attach(content="test", mimetype="application/octet-stream")
-            msg.send()
-
-        with self.assertRaises(NotSupportedByMandrillError):
-            msg = mail.EmailMessage('Subject', 'Body',
-                'from@example.com', ['to@example.com'])
-            # Can't send Office docs, either:
-            msg.attach(filename="presentation.ppt", content="test",
-                mimetype="application/vnd.ms-powerpoint")
-            msg.send()
-
     def test_bcc_errors(self):
         # Mandrill only allows a single bcc address
         with self.assertRaises(NotSupportedByMandrillError):