Hello,

As an alternative to qmail-scanner, I thought about installing spamdyke on Plesk 9...

Does anybody tried it? Is it working well?
Does a special package "psa-compatible" exist? Or does it need a manual installation (make...)?

Thanks for the informations!

Its not an alternative to qmail-scanner, since they do different things. They play nicely with one another, it is an alternative to qgreylist though.

spamdyke is available in the [atomic] channel, and there is a web interface for it called psa-spamdyke currently in the [atomic-testing] channel.

The main advantage is being able to use very strict DNSBL (e.g. zen.spamhaus.org) and customers using dynamic IP's (normally blocked) can still send e-mail if they authenticated during SMTP.

I've had mixed success with Plesk 9. When it worked, it worked REALLY well and reduced the load on qmail-scanner/CPU as it has to deal with fewer messages. Got ART qmail-scanner/spamdyke running, although the qmail service was always shown as stopped under the Services management. After a while (usually overnight) e-mail stopped being delivered and qmail was shown as running again. Restarted xinetd (sometimes also needed to remove spamdyke entries from /etc/xinetd.d/smtp*) and mail delivery would continue. I guess that Plesk was restarting qmail service and breaking itself.

I tried a lot of different configuration settings, but have given up for now, I will investigate again once Plesk 9 is more mature.

Man, thats really good followup, I'll keep that in mind when we're testing it out here internally. Crazy bug there

Hello, any new issue with Spamdyke and Plesk 9?
Or does it seem to work well?
Thanks!