[Mimedefang] A little confusered

[Weyland]

On Thursday 20 June 2002 02:26 pm, David F. Skoll spake:

> > Is MD set up to do *any* kind of filtering once installed?
>
> If you leave the default filter in place, then yes.

Okay, then I'm good there...

> > I've tried sending test messages through that
> > would obviously be spam, and they make it through.
>
> Do you have SpamAssassin installed?  Otherwise, MD does not scan for
> spam.

Yep, sure do.
But they're getting through anyway.

> > Is there another resource that I might understand a little
> > better regarding configuration, as a Linux semi-newbie?
>
> The man page: man mimedefang-filter is a good place to start, assuming
> you know Perl.  If you do not know Perl, then good luck... you have a
> steep learning curve ahead. :-)

Crap. 
No, I don't know Perl.

Still, it should be filtering *somewhat*, correct?
How could I check to see why it's not?

Thanks,

Weyland