12.5 Plesk upgrade overwrites Postfix header_checks

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Just a warning to anyone who uses the /etc/postfix/header_checks file to use custom filtering of email.

Upgrading Plesk copies over this file. I've spent over a year customizing and tweeking my header_checks file to almost completely eliminate spam...and now after I upgraded Plesk to 12.5 it's gone.

I realize it's mostly my own fault for not thinking to back up this file...but Plesk really should NOT be copying over that file in the first place. Bad, bad, bad....

 

[IgorG]

Actually this file is a part of OS vendor's postfix package:

# rpm -qf /etc/postfix/header_checks
postfix-2.11.5-centos6.15072015.i386

I suppose that you should address your "bad, bad, bad" words to OS vendor packagers who did not provide creation backup file like /etc/postfix/header_checks.rpmsave after postfix package update. A lot of different config files can be customized by Plesk users. It is really very difficult to predict all these possible customizations and perform backup of each potentially customized file.