What is MIMEDefang?

MIMEDefang is a flexible, open-source email filtering framework that integrates with Sendmail and Postfix via the Milter API, letting you write your filtering policies in Perl.

  • Powerful - inspect, modify, accept, or reject any part of an email message during the SMTP transaction
  • Scriptable - express complex policies in Perl with full access to the MIME tree, headers, and envelope
  • Integrates - works with SpamAssassin, ClamAV, rspamd, DKIM signing, SPF, DMARC, and more
  • Proven - in production since 2000, deployed across thousands of sites; free software under the GNU GPL
  • Portable - runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and most UNIX-like systems

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A Big Thank You To

The MIMEDefang Project Management Committee would like to thank Zix who graciously donated MIMEDefang to The McGrail Foundation.