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Old 07-23-2009, 02:13 PM   #1
shudini
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Postfix Regexp lookahead body check


I am trying to have my Postfix server block emails that contain links that are highly likely to be spam - specifically links that contain a format similar to mysite.com.something.dn where the recipient is supposed to be fooled into thinking it's mysite.com when in reality it is something else. i am trying to use a regexp in the body check to do this, but for some reason it is not working. initially, i tried blocking using /.*http:.*?\.(com|org)\./ which worked but found that there were legitimate sites that contained mysite.com.com. As a result, i decided to only block emails that contained a standard root domain but did not end with that actual root domain: /.*http:.*?\.(com|org)\.(?!(com|org)).*/ (any link containing .com or .org not followed by .com or .org. It's primitive, I know, but for my operation it would be effective and i am prepared to take the risk of false positives. Unfortunately, this is not working. I debugged the mail going through and it clearly contained an entry which should have matched but didn't. Does Postfix have the ability to perform a negative lookahead in a regexp?

Here's the line from my config file:

body_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/body_checks

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Shuie
 
Old 07-23-2009, 04:30 PM   #2
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I would use clamav-milter. Clamav already has facilities for such things. This is from clamd.conf:
Code:
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# Scan URLs found in mails for phishing attempts using heuristics.
# Default: yes
#PhishingScanURLs yes
...
You'd also be getting a virus scanner for free. To do the lookahead stuff, you need to use pcre, not regexp.
 
Old 07-24-2009, 08:32 AM   #3
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Thank you for your help!

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