El lun, 30-09-2019 a las 17:58 -0400, Bill Cole escribió:
> On 29 Sep 2019, at 20:30, Hugo Florentino wrote:
> 
> > El vie, 27-09-2019 a las 09:33 -0400, Bill Cole escribió:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Because, as documented, header_checks (and the other built-in
> > > content
> > > filtering in Postfix) does not support restrictions or
> > > restriction
> > > classes as results of a pattern match.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Allow me to pose a slightly different scenario then, but still
> > related
> > to my original doubt:
> > 
> > I separate smtp and submission, and prevent using my domain through
> > smtp. However somehow someones's PC gets compromised and sends mail
> > modifying the From header in the data section.
> > 
> > Even if the envelope-from is not forged (using
> > reject_sender_login_mismatch and so), email clients often display
> > only
> > the descriptive From.
> > 
> > Is there a way to prevent this forging of descriptive From using
> > postfix itself?
> 
> No. Since headers are part of message content, your options for 
> filtering based on headers are those described in the 
> CONTENT_INSPECTION_README file, which is included the Postfix 
> distribution and is available on the website. That document also 
> explains the rationale for keeping the internal content filtering in 
> Postfix itself very simple and leaving anything complex to external 
> programs. For this sort of mixed content/envelope filtering I use
> the 
> MIMEDefang milter but there are other tools available that could do 
> this.
> 
> Also, you should consider the edge cases of such a filtering policy.
> For 
> example, any message from this mailing list arrives with the From
> header 
> unmodified from how the author submitted it.
> 

OK, thank you for the explanation.

Best regards, Hugo

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