Test your body/header filter pattern matching

Contributed by Michilimackinac January 18, 2004  
Tagged: Postfix

These are some useful commands that I have seen on the postfix mailing list for checking to make sure the body_checks and header_checks are reject the mails that you do not want (unsolicited commercial email UCE) and receiving the ones that you want.

first show the parameter value for header checks


% postconf -h header_checks
regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
%


Let’s assume that we have a header_checks file with this one line in it:


/super new viagra/ REJECT


We can do a test to see if the header checks will catch and reject things:


% postmap -q 'super new viagra' regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
REJECT
% postmap -q 'super new v1agra' regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
% postmap -q 'super viagra' regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks


We see that the first example it succesfully rejected what was probably spam
with the regular expression syntax we could probably make a better filter
/super new v[i1]agra/ REJECT
is starting to get better. Hopefully you get the idea about expanding on this.

If you can save a spam mail as a single file then you can also very easily test body_checks
again check what type of map body_checks is (”postconf -m” will output the list of available
types on the system)


% postconf -h body_checks
regexp:/etc/postfix/body_checks
%


Let’s assume our body_checks file has one line in it with the following


/http:\/\/www.77yy4.com/ REJECT


we have a file with a line like this:

.........


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This is a way that you can test you body_checks to make sure that certain mails fail and that others that you want to go through do not get rejected.