This isn't directly an answer to your question but i'm sharing to help other people who find this and run mail servers: Our mail server's postfix filter in /etc/postfix/mime_header_checks was: /^\s*Content-(Disposition|Type).*name\s*=\s*"?(.*\.(ade|adp|bas|bat|chm|cmd|com|cpl|crt|dll|exe|hlp|hta|inf|ins|isp|js|jse|lnk|mdb|mde|mdt|mdw|msc|msi|msp|mst|nws|ops|pcd|pif|prf|reg|scf|scr\??|sct|shb|shs|shm|swf|vb[esx]?|vxd|wsc|wsf|wsh))(\?=)?"?\s*(;|$)/x REJECT Attachment name "$2" may not end with ".$3" We changed it to the following to avoid this issue: /^\s*Content-(Disposition|Type)[^;]*;name\s*=\s*"?([^;]*\.(ade|adp|bas|bat|chm|cmd|com|cpl|crt|dll|exe|hlp|hta|inf|ins|isp|js|jse|lnk|mdb|mde|mdt|mdw|msc|msi|msp|mst|nws|ops|pcd|pif|prf|reg|scf|scr\??|sct|shb|shs|sh|shm|swf|vb[esx]?|vxd|wsc|wsf|wsh)\b)(\?=)?"?\s*(;|$)/x REJECT Attachment name "$2" may not end with ".$3"