Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>>> Plaintext patch, plus two plaintext .c files.
>>
>> Then I have no clue.
> Actually I've had more success with .tar.gz than plain text attachments.
I think the filter is not on the name or actual contents of the file,
but what MIME content-type it's labeled with. (Which is actually pretty
sensible, because the point is to reject anything that Microsloth mail
readers might try to auto-execute.)
Plain ol' application/octet-stream always gets through for me.
regards, tom lane