On 2012-04-13 Kizito Thomas wrote:
> I have been trying to block some incoming mails using header_checks but
> I am failing to block them, they are still going through.
> I have read and used info from
> http://www.postfix.org/header_checks.5.html and specifically followed
> the synopsis of: header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks.
> I am using regexp because under "Table Format" regexp support is more
> widely available and it is also the look up table for my installation.
> I have also followed
> http://www.techiepark.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/header_checks.txt
> while designing my /etc/postfix/header_checks file, which looks like
> below:
> # more /etc/postfix/header_checks
> /^From:t...@mayengo.or.ug/ REJECT
> ######################
> For this am still testing with one email address to make sure the
> implementation is safe.
> I have also edited the /etc/postfix/main.cf to have a line:
> header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
> I have restarted postfix but the mails from t...@mayengo.or.ug are still
> going through.
> I don't know what am doing wrong, may be people from here can help me.
cobalt@iridium:~ $ man header_checks | grep "added by the cleanup" -A2
Message headers added by the cleanup(8) daemon itself are excluded from
inspection. Examples of such message headers are From:, To:, Message-
ID:, Date:.
Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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