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Stopping the deluge of email spam for qmail using SpamDyke

August 6, 2013 linux, systems administration

If you’re having spam trouble with qmail [edit – 2019; new fork, qmail.org is offline] based Linux servers (in our customer’s case – Plesk based) then perhaps you need to look at using SpamDyke Installation is pretty easy – wget http://www.spamdyke.org/releases/spamdyke-4.3.0.tgz tar -zxf spamdyke-4.3.0 cd spamdyke-4.3.0/spamdyke ./configure make  && cp spamdyke /usr/local/bin Then, assuming qmail is […]

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Spam detection / tagging for a forum

November 22, 2012 systems administration, wordpress

One customer has a forum which has been consistently plagued by spam – here’s a short writeup about what we found worked for us in an initial attempt at reducing the tidal wave of spam.

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