yet another qmail/spamdyke post

[StigJ]

Hello my fellow plesk users!
First of all, I'm not a real linuxwiz but ever since I first installed spamdyke
the qmail seems to be abit "unstable", and sometimes the "mail service" just stop working completely, but a server reboot usually fix that.

BUT now it is dead... and i cant seem to get it started again nomatter what i do, I also noticed that
noting ever gets logged (not even before spamdyke) in the maillog and whenever i enable spamdyke in the smtp.conf plesk says that smtp is not running, and i cant start it untill i remove the two spamdyke entries from the smtp.conf file.

And I don't know if this is related, but I can't get mailman to run either, with or without spamdyke, it just says that "smtp service is not running".

Please help


Stigge

 

[Faris Raouf]

It is normal for Plesk to report that the smtp service is down when you have spamdyke installed. It isn't a problem, just ignore it.

As for the rest of your problems....try asking on the spamdyke mailing list, as you'll get a better response there. I've not come accross any issues with spamdyke ever, except when it is incorrectly configured. So it might be as simple as a line in your config that needs looking at. Spamdyke includes comprehensive test scripts to help you here:

http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#CONFIGURATION_TEST

Remember that the maillog is at /usr/local/psa/maillog and not /var/log/maillog

If you get nothing logged then it is possible that syslogd isn't being run at startup (try ntsysv to see if it is).

 

[StigJ]

Thank you Faris... this helped alot the world of Linux is mostly a jungle for me, and you just handed me a knife.
You were right, the syslog was not running (/me bangs his head against the keyboard)