From: D Hill (d.hillyournetplus.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 10:32:54 CDT

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On Thu, 1 May 2008 at 11:27 -0400, johnnybmarlboro.edu 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: fromthehelpdesk2007gmail.com/ 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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