[PLUG] Postfix body checks - inbound only?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Aug 28 15:09:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Steven Raymond wrote:

> Is there any way to make Postfix not perform the body_checks (perhaps any
> anti-UCE checks) for local users sending mail(particularly root)?

Paul,

  None that work as advertised. I have a regex that is supposed to solve the
problem, but it doesn't.

  My mail log is mailed to me by root every morning. When there's a
body_check rule cited in the report it comes through anyway -- as a rejected
mail message sent by MAILER-DAEMON. :-) I've learned to live happily with
this.

   What frustrates me is when spam comes in with a string in the body that
should have rejected it, but I cannot send out the spam report to the
originating ISP because now postfix won't let it out! This usually -- but
not always -- is with an html-formatted message with random characters
embedded in the words. That _should_ be rejected, but sometimes is not. Pine
translates the html to plain, ASCII text and that triggers the rule on the
way back out. Sigh.

Rich

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