Howto: Spamdyk and Qmail on Gentoo

After my server was close to wasting all its CPU time for checking email messages for potential spam using Spamassassin I decided that it was time to investigate. My friend Arne, who helped me a lot with Qmail problems earlier, recommended to install spamdyk, an SMTP spam filter that is placed in front of Qmail and does not require specially patches for the MTA itself. Spamdyk can filter mail by blacklisting, whitelisting, greylisting and using several other options.

Thanks to Arne for this great tip! Spamdyk is up and running now on my maschine and my load is now constantly below 0.40, while spam receival seems to be reduced drastically. Since I did not find much information about Spamdyk on Gentoo, I wrote down my experiences as a little howto in the Gentoo wiki. Maybe someone finds it helpfull. Any feedback welcome!

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Major update for spamdyke on Gentoo howto

on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:31:56 +0100 in Tobias Schlitt - a passion for php

I recently migrated my server to a new maschine and a new provider. After supporting Kore today with installing spamdyke on his maschine, too, I seized the chance to update my Spam Filtering with Spamdyke in front of Qmail howto on the wiki. The howto des

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Shane

on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:31:43 +0100

hey, Gentoo-wiki crashed/lost it's db or whatever (shocked they had no effective backup), maybe you should re-submit your article, google ranked your stuff high... but cant find it in the cache there either :(
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Toby

on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:03:34 +0100

Hi Shane,

I'll look if I have the wiki entry or the installation log still around somewhere, but chances are rare... :/

Regards,
Toby
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