KLaM Postmaster a écrit : > I am having a problem with some legitimate emails being rejected by > header and/or body checks. Both the header and body checks are from > Jeffrey Posluns' write up,without any mods. > Among the stuff being rejected is the output of pflogsumm, I run a daily > a report and email it to postmaster. I was not getting the reports so I > checked the maillog and found that these messages, among others, were > being rejected with "Your email is not using a proper character set. > ...".
if header/body checks reject legitimate mail, then something is wrong. > In the case of pflogsumm, and some of the other automatic email, I > really don't have much say in its internal format. > > 1) As I try to control spam by using amavisd, spamassassin, clamv, > postgrey and so far seem doing OK (touch wood), are header and/or body > check worthwhile as an anti-spam measures. Could they be dropped. > header and body checks can be used to reject some spam (forged received headers, "banned" attachment types, ...), but not as a general content filter. > 2) If they are worthwhile, is there a way of not applying them to all > mail except that destined for postmaster. you can't. but they can be skipped for mail submitted via the sendmail command. for that, define a specific cleanup and use it in pickup (in master.cf). but this is not a good idea. The fact that these checks are catching your legitimate mail is an indication that they could reject legitimate mail from others and to other users. > If I understood the > documentation it would seem that these checks are applied by "cleanup" > after the other checks have been completed and are not susceptible to > access checks. If this is the case, is there some other way of making > them conditional on recipient, something like an access list to these > checks. > > ============= > > As I administer a very small number of virtual users I put the attached > script together to help me. Any thoughts, ways of doing the same thing > only better etc. > > TIA > JLA > >
