MIMEDefang Tips
Protecting your PC from Evil E-Mail
by Jeffrey Thompson

First of all, hats off to David Skoll for producing such wonderful software as MIMEDefang and PPPoE Software (great with ADSL lines).

suggestions on how you can customize your mimedefang scripts

I'm starting this web page as support documentation to MIMEDefang documentation (i.e., the program itself :-) real programmer's don't need documentation right?)   I would like to share scripting and programming modifications so that we can quickly get on our feet filtering Evil E-Mail, killing Spam, and generally reclaiming control of our email.

• Tips on how to setup Outlook to automatically filter your Spam into a Deleted Folder
• Script1: My filter calls Spamassassin on messages < 200k and identifies Spam in the header with X-Spam-Status: Yes and bounces email if it gets a Spamassassin score of > 10. It also scans for some particular Evil E-Mail characteristics and bounces the email if it finds a match
• Script2: Here's a trick of generationg a header like "X-spam-level: ****** (6.4)" that lets each user set their own individual spam-threshholds in their filters
• Script3: Kill sexyfun.net stuff....
  
• Script4: A variation of filter Script1 that calls Spamassassin on messages < 200k:
  • Identifies Spam in the header with X-Spam-Status: Yes
  • Bounces email if it gets a Spamassassin score of > 5.
  • Places the X-Spam-Score line in the header (eg, X-Spam-Score: 6.8 (******) NAME_OF_TEST,NAME_OF_TEST).
    The number of asterisks in parens is the integer part of the spam score clamped to a maximum of 40.
  • Generates a Spam email notification to the Administrator
  • Attaches the SpamAssassinReport.txt to the email

Feel free to suggest improvements or modifications to the code.

How do you filter your email with MIMEDefang? Submit your code here.

check out the very helpful MIMEDefang HOWTO by Mickey Hill