Just to add a real life example to P@ricks message ...
I have an old UPS that sends status via Email. It doesn't supply a
Date field. So rejecting Emails of this sort would eliminate these
status Emails, which would be a problem in my case.
And a [bonus] side note. I am presently migrating my Email system
to a new server. My MUA doesn't handle these "dateless" Emails very
well, so I've developed some scan/fix scripts to find the old Emails and
add a Date field, based on the Received headers.
Paul
On 9/23/25 07:22, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
* Benny Pedersen <[email protected]>:
is it safe to reject based on this in amavisd.conf
X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, Missing required header field: "Date"
i don't know how to :/
Safe as in "you will not loose legitimate mail"? Personally I wouldn't. Have
you considered to do an impact analysis based on the mail flow you might want
to filter?
p@rick
