On Wed, 6 May 2026 10:52:59 +0200
Paul Menzel via Postfix-users <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Enrico,
> 
> 
> Am 06.05.26 um 10:36 schrieb Enrico Morelli via Postfix-users:
> > On Wed, 6 May 2026 10:20:51 +0200 Paul Menzel via Postfix-users
> > wrote:  
> 
> >> Am 06.05.26 um 10:13 schrieb Enrico Morelli via Postfix-users:
> >>  
> >>> I've a Debian 11 mail server with Postfix 3.5.25.  I've configured
> >>> Postfix to filter the headers with: header_checks = pcre:/etc/
> >>> postfix/header_checks.pcre
> >>>
> >>> However, some emails with subjects listed in the file are still
> >>> delivered.
> >>>    
> >>> E.g.
> >>> /^Subject:.*Pulitore.WC.Più.Votato.2025.*/ REJECT
> >>>
> >>> A positive test result:
> >>>
> >>> postmap -q "Subject: Pulitore WC Più Votato 2025"
> >>> pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks.pcre REJECT
> >>>
> >>> Why Postfix don't reject the email? Where I've to investigate?
> >>> After writing a new entry in header_checks.pre, have I to reload
> >>> Postfix? 
> >>
> >> Please look at and share the actual header entry Subject in the
> >> emails. Often they are encoded, and Postfix header checks don’t
> >> decode it. You need to use a milter for this usecase.  
> 
> > The subject is the following:
> > 
> > Subject: Pulitore WC Più Votato 2025  
> I thought due to the ù, it’d need to be encoded. Where did you copy
> this from? In Thunderbird you can press Ctrl + u to look at the
> message source. The email should also be stored in some file, and you
> could look into it directly?
> 

I use Claws-Mail but the Ctrl+u works so the subject is:

Subject: =?utf-8?B?UHVsaXRvcmUgV0MgUGnDuSBWb3RhdG8gMjAyNQ==?=

I think that I cannot use header_checks for that :-)). What can I use?
 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul
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