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Rejecting Email Based on Headers With Postfix
Topic: Email Posted:2006-07-29
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Postfix has the ability to reject mail based on regular expression matching in the header of the incoming mail message. To enable this, add these lines to main.cf:

header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks

We stuck these after the alias line. Add the header content matches and actions to header_checks (usually in /etc/postfix) and restart postfix. Here is an example match and action:

/badwordnotallowed/ REJECT No Spam Allowed

The logs will show the email being rejected:

Jul 29 09:18:38 main postfix/cleanup[3479]: E855A5555BA: reject: header Subject:
badwordnotallowed from host.example.com[200.0.1.8]; from=<> to=<host2@example.co
m> proto=ESMTP helo=<host.example.com>: No Spam Allowed

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