[Mimedefang] A little confusered

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Weyland wrote:

> > Do you have SpamAssassin installed?  Otherwise, MD does not scan for
> > spam.

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

The default filter does not block spam.  It just tags a message with
an X-Spam-Score header if it scores higher than 5.  Also, if you see
an X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang header, then at least you know your
messages are being scanned.

> Crap.
> No, I don't know Perl.

Time to learn. :-)

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

Enable the "-l" option on the multiplexor and check your
logs (probably /var/log/maillog).  Check for the presence of
an X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang header.

Regards,

David.