Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-07 Thread LuKreme
On 6-Oct-2009, at 15:02, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: In real life almost ALL mails are base64 encoded... Wait, what? $ grep -ir ^Content-Transfer-Encoding . | wc -l 198485 $ grep -ir ^Content-Transfer-Encoding . | grep -v base64 | wc -l 195574 Looking at my mail spool almost ALL mail is either

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, LuKreme wrote: Looking at my mail spool almost ALL mail is either 7bit, 8bit, or quoted-printable. That's what I've seen here, too. Regardless, when I put those base64 messages on hold and looked at them this morning, none was base64 Content-Transfer-Encoded. I'm

Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rich Shepard put forth on 10/7/2009 1:38 PM: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, LuKreme wrote: Looking at my mail spool almost ALL mail is either 7bit, 8bit, or quoted-printable. That's what I've seen here, too. Regardless, when I put those base64 messages on hold and looked at them this morning,

Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Rich Shepard
The Postfix book tells me that using the WARN option on a restriction (such as in the /etc/postfix/header_checks file) logs the warning while delivering the message. However, there is apparently no marking of the message so it's clearly identified as one that tripped that warning. I want

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com: The Postfix book tells me that using the WARN option on a restriction (such as in the /etc/postfix/header_checks file) logs the warning while delivering the message. However, there is apparently no marking of the message so it's clearly identified as

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Rich Shepard: The Postfix book tells me that using the WARN option on a restriction (such as in the /etc/postfix/header_checks file) logs the warning while delivering the message. However, there is apparently no marking of the message so it's clearly identified as one that tripped that

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I want to examine delivered messages that contain Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 in the header. Basically that would be all messages... Ralf, I asked locally about that because much of the spam I receive is coded base64 while almost all

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Wietse Venema wrote: Perhaps warn is not the right concept for inspecting mail. Options more directly related to mail inspection would be: holdFreeze the mail in the queue until acted upon. Frozen mail can be inspected with postcat -q queueid, or deleted/requeued

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rich Shepard put forth on 10/6/2009 4:38 PM: On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I want to examine delivered messages that contain Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 in the header. Basically that would be all messages... Ralf, I asked locally about that because much of the