Header_check

[Pete]

Drew Marshall wrote:

>Pete said:
>
>
>>Below is the log entry from when i release a quarantined messages vua
>>mailwatch. Some one gave me the tip on usig a different header_check
>>which let mail from the local machine through - but for some one reason
>>it has stopped working - i cant understand it longer works? Why dont
>>this header_check allow mail from the local machine be delivered without
>>being "Held" ?
>>
>>/^Received:(.*)by localhost\.domain1\.com\.au \(Postfix\)/      HOLD
>>
>>Apr 23 14:09:58 mail01 postfix/cleanup[17196]: 454581E03: hold: header
>>Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])??by
>>mail01.domain1.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454581E03??for
>><prussell at domain1.com.au>; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:09:58 +1000 (EST) from
>>localhost[127.0.0.1]; from=<postmaster at localhost.mteliza.com.au>
>>to=<prussell at domain1.com.au> proto=ESMTP helo=<localhost>
>>
>>
>
>>From this the bit in the ?? is what is matching your regexp. MailWatch
>obviously forwards using smtp so you have 2 options.
>
>

I am not sure what you mean by the above? what does the ?? represent?
Can i fix this by changing something else, or only the regexp so i only
have to match a small part of the header to not HOLD the message?

>1) Configure MailWatch to send using direct queue injection (Not my
>preferred choice as spam messages that are quarantined are not virus
>scanned. A bit embarrasing if you forward a virus in a spam message!)
>2) Why not white list all mail from 127.0.0.1 in a rule set? It will be
>virus scanned but not spam scanned therefore won't end up back in your
>quarantine.
>
>Drew
>
>
Thanks i thought of whitelist, but i kinda of wanted to get thjis
working so i can use this easily in future installations...

thanks anyway
Pete

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