We have already dicussed how to install and configure postfix now we will learn about How to add a Disclaimer To Outgoing Emails in Postfix using altermime.
alterMIME is a small program which is used to alter your mime-encoded mailpacks as typically received by Inflex, Xamime and AMaViS.
What can alterMIME do?
Insert disclaimers
Insert arbitary X-headers
Modify existing headers
Remove attachments based on filename or content-type
Replace attachments based on filename
Installing alterMIME in debian
Use the following command to install altermime
#aptitude install altermime
This will complete the installation.
Configure altermime
Next we need to create the user filter with the home directory /var/spool/filter filter – alterMIME will be run as that user
#useradd -r -c “Postfix Filters” -d /var/spool/filter filter
#mkdir /var/spool/filter
#chown filter:filter /var/spool/filter
#chmod 750 /var/spool/filter
Afterwards we create the script /etc/postfix/disclaimer which executes alterMIME. Debian’s alterMIME package comes with a sample script that we can simply copy to /etc/postfix/disclaimer
#cp /usr/share/doc/altermime/examples/postfix_filter.sh /etc/postfix/disclaimer
#chgrp filter /etc/postfix/disclaimer
#chmod 750 /etc/postfix/disclaimer
Now we need to add disclaimer to only outgoing email
we create the file /etc/postfix/disclaimer_emails which holds all sender email addresses (one per line) for which alterMIME should add a disclaimer
#vi /etc/postfix/disclaimer_emails
[email protected]
[email protected]
Save and exit the file
Now we open /etc/postfix/disclaimer and modify some configuration you can check this file
Next we need the text file /etc/postfix/disclaimer.txt which holds our disclaimer text. Debian’s alterMIME package comes with a sample text that we can use for now
#cp /usr/share/doc/altermime/examples/disclaimer.txt /etc/postfix/disclaimer.txt
Finally we have to tell Postfix that it should use the /etc/postfix/disclaimer script to add disclaimers to outgoing emails. Open /etc/postfix/master.cf and add -o content_filter=dfilt: to the smtp line:
#vi /etc/postfix/master.cf
# # Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format # of the file, see the master(5) manual page (command: “man 5 master”). # # ========================================================================== # service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args # (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100) # ==========================================================================
smtp inet n – – – – smtpd
-o content_filter=dfilt: […]
at the end of the file add the following lines
[…]
dfilt unix – n n – – pipe
flags=Rq user=filter argv=/etc/postfix/disclaimer -f ${sender} -- ${recipient}
Save and exit the file.
Now you need to restart the postfix mail server using the following command
#/etc/init.d/postfix restart
Hi there,
I set this up – but the HTML isn’t being parsed properly by Outlook 2007.
It puts a few = signs into the body of the HTML disclaimer, it happens when it’s sent as plaintext and HTML.
Any ideas? I can’t figure it out!
Cheers,
Andrew
Help needed,
I am using Fedora core 6 and I had tried to add disclamer as per the instructions in this page, also googled and tried lots of other ways too.
But when ever I try to send mail and cheks the maillog, its showing this error, and the mail is not send at all
I am pasting the error from /etc/log/maillog
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Oct 11 08:22:38 it001 pipe[5108]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /etc/postfix/disclaimer: Permission denied
Oct 11 08:22:38 it001 sendmail[5102]: m9BCMcLV005102: [email protected], ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30063, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 981A050068)
Oct 11 08:22:38 it001 postfix/pipe[5107]: 981A050068: to=, relay=dfilt, delay=0.09, delays=0.06/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: pipe: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /etc/postfix/disclaimer: Permission denied )
Oct 11 08:22:38 it001 postfix/smtpd[5103]: disconnect from it001[127.0.0.1]
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You should add
#groupadd filter
just below
#useradd -r -c “Postfix Filters” -d /var/spool/filter filter
Don´t work, using the sample.sh as disclaimer when the user send mail over imap (squierrelmail)
$from_address = From:user@domain, when sendin in imap and don´t work,
sendin in pop $from_address = user@domain and works fine
i’m not find this line
-o content_filter=dfilt: […]
at the end of the file add the following lines
please tell me how
I have followed this how-to, step by step but I am failing to get my postifix starting after the changes made to /etc/postfix/master.cf
When prompted to restart, it returns a fatal error.
But when I remove the edits from the master.cf, the mail server fires like charm.
I badly need this thing to work but am stack,
I need help.
Thank you.
Sometimes, the following line doesn’t work in some language contexts:
from_address=`grep -m 1 "From:" in.$$ | cut -d "" -f 1`This is because many mail clients code the “from” section like this when there’s an accent in the name:
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?SOMEBODY_Val=E9rie?=<[email protected]>
In order to make it work, replace the concerned line with :
from_address=`grep -m 1 -A 1 "^From:" in.$$ |grep -E -o "\b[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\b"`It worked for me.
Happy hacking!