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Re: regular expression with postfix

From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 14:45:26 CDT


On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:37:04PM +0000, Tom Lee wrote:

> >Yes, the [^."]* won't match the "." in "foo.jpg". Also approach is
> >terrible, update your mail client software to something written this
> >century.
>
> how about using this solution?
>
> /^(content-(type|disposition):.*;[[:space:]]*(file)?name[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*")([=\?]*([^\.|"]*)\?=)(".*)/
> REPLACE ${1}changed_filename${3}

It still won't match the "." in "foo.jpg". You need a decent regular
expression book/tutorial. Also test with:

        postmap -fq "$(cat headerline.txt)" pcre:/path/to/map.pcre

not a live Postfix installation.

> I am using microsoft outlook 2003.

If using Exchange, ... make sure the server's MIME parsing is also not
pre-historic. If all software is current, file a bug report. Do not
introduce ugly hacks into your production system. Replacing headers may
break digital signatures, make it harder for users to collaborate on
a document (keeping the name as they pass it back and forth), ...

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