From: Robin Lynn Frank (no email)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 01:33:02 EST
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 19:06, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Robin Lynn Frank:
> -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > I checked the docs but did not see (or didn't recognize) the answer to
> > the following:
> >
> > 1) What is the order of header and body checks (i.e., header first, body
> > second)?
>
> TABLE SEARCH ORDER
> For each line of message input, the patterns are applied
> in the order as specified in the table. When a pattern is
> found that matches the input line, the corresponding
> action is executed and then the next input line is
> inspected.
>
> > 2) If headers are checked first, is it possible to whitelist specific
> > mail to avoid a body check?
>
> BUGS
> Many people overlook the main limitations of header and
> body_checks rules. These rules operate on one logical
> message header or one body line at a time, and a decision
> made for one line is not carried over to the next line.
>
> I think header_checks(5) says it all (the above text comes with
> Postfix 2.1 and later).
>
> Wietse
Thanks, Wietse. As usual, when my ship comes in, I'm at the airport.
:-( Don't know where I was looking, but I missed it.
The good news is that I've found a solution. I'll use REDIRECT to a
user created for the purpose. That way, we don't risk rejecting list
mail, can examine the mail in question and our users are spared the
garbage.
-- Robin Lynn Frank Director of Operations Paradigm-Omega, LLC http://www.paradigm-omega.com/ ==================================================================== Spambots are welcome at http://paradigm-omega.net/cgi-bin/custmail.cgi ==================================================================== No space left in message for a signature.
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