[Mimedefang] sendmail not working after mimedefang install

[Jimmy Hayes]

I guess I would like to put all email that matches the spam in a folder
or redirected to a mail box if it's possible. Then I can review it
later. Not sure if my email is actually being scanned because I don't
see the X-scanned on the headers. 

The services that I need on are spamd -d, mimedefand and sendmail
correct?

Thanks,
I feel like if I am almost there.

Jimmy Hayes 

 


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Thomas [mailto:mthomas at biocontrolsys.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 3:49 PM
To: Jimmy Hayes; mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] sendmail not working after mimedefang install

By default, your spam mail goes nowhere.  In the default configuration
of
mimedefang and spamassassin, your email will just get marked in the
headers.
So you can check that it's working by viewing the headers on your mail.
Every email that goes through your system should have a header like:
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42
This shows that it was scanned by MIMEDefang

Spam email will have additional headers showing a spam score and
spamassassin rules which were matched.

Now that you have it set up, you get to decide for yourself what you
want
done with it.  You can bounce spam over a certain score (personally, I
wouldn't bounce any mail until you've had the chance to fine tune your
installation and make sure you aren't getting any false positives
(FPs)).
You can have mimedefang add something to subject line of all spam
emails,
like "** SPAM ** Here is the normal subject" and then filter on your
clients
into a spam folder where they can review the stuff being marked as spam
and
modify your filters.  If you client has the capability, you can filter
on
the header itself without having to modify the subject line.

So, what do you want to do with you spam?

Regards,
Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy Hayes [mailto:jhayes at verilet.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 3:35 PM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Cc: Matthew Thomas
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] sendmail not working after 
> mimedefang install
> 
> 
> Okay all set. I managed to get it working.
> 
> Now how do I know that my mail is being filtered? Where does 
> my spam mail go to?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jimmy Hayes