Re: Postfix Woes


Subject: Re: Postfix Woes
From: Jamie Hushower (hushower@ak.net)
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 07:58:16 AKDT


There's the answer! My version does *not* support DISCARD. I was under the
impression that discarding mail is an old idea... Time to update Postfix.
Thanks, James. Thanks also to tcv for demonstrating a more flexible regexp
method.

-Jamie

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Jamie Hushower
Computer Consultant
Rent-A-Geek
223-9136
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Zuelow" <e5z8652@zuelow.net>
To: "Jamie Hushower" <hushower@ak.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Postfix Woes

> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:07:33 -0800
> "Jamie Hushower" <hushower@ak.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have been trying to get Postfix to discard email that matches the
regular
> > expressions in my header_checks file, but Postfix doesn't like the
> > following:
> > /^Subject: Re: Details/ DISCARD
> >
> > The log file reports:
> > Aug 21 14:49:50 mail postfix/cleanup[7906]: warning: unknown command in
> > header_checks map: DISCARD
> >
> > The official Postfix docs claim DISCARD is a valid value that will drop
the
> > email. I have no problems if I replace "DISCARD" with "REJECT", but I
don't
> > want to send notification email to a likely spoofed return address.
> >
>
> Which version of Postfix are you running? The postfix.org documentation
is for the latest version. My version doesn't even support header checks.
:)
>
> Cheers,
>
> James

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