EASY steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk wrote:
It's a bug. Read the original question carefully. If I'm pasting the
original headers into the BODY of a fresh mail, and the header filters
are *blocking* it - is that intended behaviour? Answer (hopefully) 'No'.
If the header-only filters are blocking on the body content, then yes,
that would be a bug. But that isn't what you said in your original
question, which was whether this is true:
"You cannot whitelist a sender or client in an access list to bypass
header or body checks. Header and body checks take place whether you
explicitly "OK" a client or sender, in access lists, or not."
That's a question about whether it's possible to override header or body
checks by whitelisting. And the answer to that is "no". I agree that's
not necessarily desirable behaviour, but there are reasons why it's done
that way and it's certainly not a bug.
If you meant to ask "Do header checks apply to body content as well?"
then that's a different question. If the answer to that is "yes" then I
would be very surprised, since the documentation[1] clearly indicates
that these are applied separately. If header_checks are (or appear to
be) blocking messages where the offending headers are pasted into the
body of a message, then either you have misconfigured your server or you
have found a real bug. If the latter, then you ought to be able to
demonstrate it with a combination of mail logs, sample messages and the
output of postconf -n.
[1] http://www.postfix.org/header_checks.5.html
Mark
