[CentOS] Postfix question: How to reject email with a certain subject header

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, John R Pierce wrote:

> nate wrote:
>> Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Occasionally I get emails which have a subject header of "Rejected posting
>>> to Blah", from a listserv I am on. Without going into a 10 page diatribe
>>> of why, I'd like to reject these automatically, sending them to /dev/null.
>>> I used to run Sendmail and that was pretty easy to do. How can I do this
>>> under Postfix under CentOS 5.3?
>>>
>>
>> Do you want to reject them or eat them and send them to /dev/null ?
>>
>> If you want to reject them something like this would work:
>>
>> header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/regexp_table
>>
>> and in /etc/postfix/regexp_table something like:
>> /^Subject: This is the subject I want to reject             REJECT 554
>> Custom rejection message
>>
>
> The problem with that approach is that its global to the server.    I
> dislike putting filtering rules like that in the system, and prefer to
> do them on a per user basis, hence my postmailrc suggestion (except I
> don't know if CentOS uses postmail as the delivery agent for postfix)

Hey Filipe, John, Michael,

Thanks for your help on this. I do want a global rejection in this case, 
so this works out well. Thanks so much everyone!!!

Gilbert

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