Re: Blocked post

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Blocked post
Date: 2007-04-02 19:32:15
Message-ID: 26776.1175542335@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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

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