OS X Server rejects emails with empty subject

OS X Server rejects email that has empty subjects. This is not bad in itself, but several clients have complained that their emails have been rejected by the sever because there was no subject specified in the email.
Is there any command line setting that would configure this?
Thanks
Jeff

Hi Tony,
Thanks for the help.
I followed your instructions. However, the problem seems to persist with a test email that I sent out.
Here is the error message:
This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:
Message-id: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:14:55 +0200
From: Jeffrey Hargrove <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Hargrove <[email protected]>
Subject:
Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
Recipient address: [email protected]
Reason: SMTP transmission failure has occurred
Diagnostic code: smtp;550 5.7.1 empty subject header
Remote system: dns;mail.jeffhargrove.com (TCP|17.172.220.239|64701|212.198.87.10|25) (server.jeffhargrove.com ESMTP Postfix)
I noticed that the line in the custom_headers_check is not exactly what you indicated in your post. The one on my system is:
/^subject: *$/ REJECT empty subject header
I did verify that there is a hash before the line after quitting and restarting and the hash is still there.
I'm assuming that this is my server error and not my isp's doing. I sent an email with an empty subject from gmail using a browser and got the rejection notice.
Do you have any other ideas?
Thanks
Jeff

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