Re: creating header checks

From: D Hill (no email)
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 11:32:54 EDT

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    On Thu, 1 May 2008 at 11:27 -0400, confabulated:

    > Hi
    >
    > I have only used headers checks to hold for spam scanning.
    >
    > But today after a phising scam came in purporting to be from our helpdesk I
    > put one like this in to block users from replying:
    >
    > /^To: / REJECT
    >
    > And then I get this warning when I run postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks
    >
    > postmap: warning: /etc/postfix/header_checks, line 1: record is in "key:
    > value" format; is this an alias file?

    There is no need to postmap pcre or regexp files.

    > It appeared from all the information I could find that I was going about this
    > the right way and the check actually does seem to work.
    >
    > But I'm not clear on exactly what is going on. Why do I get this warning and
    > is there a proper way to do this that will make the warning stop when I add a
    > header_check?
    > --
    > John Baker
    > Network Systems Administrator
    > Marlboro College
    > Phone: 451-7551 off campus; 551 on campus
    >


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