Re: dspam in an mail hosting environment

On 05/02/2014 03:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 02.05.2014 19:06, schrieb Eric Shubert:
>> Just curious, are you using spamdyke (http://spamdyke.org)? IMO,
>> spamdyke is the best anti-spam software available. If I had to use only
>> one thing, it'd be spamdyke. Of course, I do use scanners as well as
>> spamdyke. Spamdyke rejects 80-90% of the spam up front though, so the
>> scanners have much less work to do. Your sever load will actually lessen
>> once it's installed. Win-win
>
> forget it, spamdyke is crap not working generic and not useable in
> ISP like setups where you want to build up a gateway MTA based
> on postfix for incoming messages and route mail to different
> servers

I apologize for not noticing the reference to postfix. I was thinking 
vpopmail for some reason (which would infer qmail).

However, the only thing which makes spamdyke not usable in that scenario 
is postfix. When using qmail, it's dandy.

> nor can i see any webinterface for users quarantine or bayesian
> filters -

spamdyke is not a scanner, so it has no need of such features. It simply 
rejects outright or not. Furthermore, I doubt one would want such 
user-based at the MTA gateway, before the detination server has been 
determined.

< for RBL and smptd-restrictions you don't need anything
> more than postfix/postscreen

I haven't investigated the differences between spamdyke and postfix 
regarding RBL and smtpd-restrictions, so I don't know if spamdyke offers 
anything additional in this arena or not. You may indeed not need 
anything more than postfix/postscreen.

>>> I don't use qmail. Can I still use spamdyke?
>>> Not at this time
>
> WTF we have 2014 and SMTP is generic

The spamdyke author is considering modifying it to be usable with 
postfix and other MTAs. I expect that when that's done, spamdyke's use 
may grow substantially.

FWIW, spamdyke is the main reason I haven't moved from qmail to postfix.

Again, sorry for taking this thread on a side track.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'


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