Comments on: Spam Revenge: Stopping Joe-job Floods in qmail

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:40:29 +0000

MagicSpam ties right into the plesk interface and needs no manual installation,configuration or compiling and all the controls are in the Plesk interface.
MagicSpam also has access to unique blacklists. These blacklists are built right in which saves time during RBL lookups.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:09:43 +0000

Why is the pay-to-use MagicSpam any better than SpamDyke or qpsmtpd?

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:27:47 +0000

The ONLY way to completely stop backscatter and joe-jobbing issues to use MagicSpam for Plesk. magicspam.com
It’s the only antispam that uses ‘Mail Server Profiling’ needed to stop spam sent via forged email addresses.

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By: Steve Kemp

Steve Kemp — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:49:32 +0000

An alternative to spamdyke (which I’ve never heard of before) is qpsmtpd – another SMTP proxy which you can sit ahead of qmail.

I’ve got a lot of experience with it, and it works very nicely.

Qmail, under plesk, does suffer quite badly. Many of our customers have issues with it. (People who pay extra for the spamassassin plesk plugin also suffer, because it doesn’t allow you to limit the spamassassin processes – and that can trigger OOM conditions.)

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:02:38 +0000

Thanks for the pointer! I also cured a mail loop which was causing problems on the server, but if the problems recur, I’ll give spamdyke a go.

By: Justice

Justice — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:37:18 +0000

How to not drown in spam with qmail? Easy:
http://www.spamdyke.org/

It works great, lessens the general load on the server and is easy to integrate with qmail/plesk.