Rspamd 1.4 Comes With Many Spam Filtering Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Rspamd 1.4 Comes With Many Spam Filtering Improvements

For those using Rspamd for open-source e-mail spam filtering, the new version 1.4 release is now available as a big, stable feature update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rspamd-1.4-Released

[gufide]

Whoa... with that name, I thought for a second that systemd had a mailserver in it

[Britoid]

Whoa... with that name, I thought for a second that systemd had a mailserver in it

maild incoming.

[starshipeleven]

Whoa... with that name, I thought for a second that systemd had a mailserver in it

FYI: many programs that run as daemons end with "d", systemd is just keeping the tradition. No need to go "yikes!" any time you see a name ending with "d".

syslogd
ntpd
ftpd
rpc.mountd
...

and so on.

[balouba]

wondering how many people use rspamd.. i tried it a while ago and wasnt entirely satisfied, so went back to spamd+clamav. might be that rspamd caught up functionality wise though (spamd+clamavd is pretty damn slow and rspamd seems nicer by design)

[schwarzman]

wondering how many people use rspamd.. i tried it a while ago and wasnt entirely satisfied, so went back to spamd+clamav. might be that rspamd caught up functionality wise though (spamd+clamavd is pretty damn slow and rspamd seems nicer by design)

We are using it on our servers (since version 1.2) and the results so far are really great. For small servers I like that it uses much less memory and CPU than SpamAssassin - on high volume machines it provides a lot of sophisticated algorithms to provide a superb filtering experience. We switched to rspamd when we saw bad filtering results with SpamAassassin and I can really recommend rspamd over SpamAssassin any time now.

That being said there are a few (potential) negatives to keep in mind:
- by default rspamd checks only the delivering server and not other Received-lines (as SpamAssassin does). That means rspamd might detect some spam as ham if the remote machine is just a forwarder.
- rspamd is mostly a one person project while SpamAssassin has a much bigger community. This is not a problem when it comes to support (reaction times are great!) but more about increasing the truck number.
- when we started using rspamd we had to report a couple of bugs, especially around DKIM/DMARC detection. However these were fixed long ago.
- rspamd is written in C (which is good for performance + RAM consumption) but is potentially susceptible to all the common mistakes you can do in C (buffer overflows, etc).

[nomadewolf]

Whoa... with that name, I thought for a second that systemd had a mailserver in it

It's only a matter of time...

[nomadewolf]

We are using it on our servers (since version 1.2) and the results so far are really great. For small servers I like that it uses much less memory and CPU than SpamAssassin - on high volume machines it provides a lot of sophisticated algorithms to provide a superb filtering experience. We switched to rspamd when we saw bad filtering results with SpamAassassin and I can really recommend rspamd over SpamAssassin any time now.

That being said there are a few (potential) negatives to keep in mind:
- by default rspamd checks only the delivering server and not other Received-lines (as SpamAssassin does). That means rspamd might detect some spam as ham if the remote machine is just a forwarder.
- rspamd is mostly a one person project while SpamAssassin has a much bigger community. This is not a problem when it comes to support (reaction times are great!) but more about increasing the truck number.
- when we started using rspamd we had to report a couple of bugs, especially around DKIM/DMARC detection. However these were fixed long ago.
- rspamd is written in C (which is good for performance + RAM consumption) but is potentially susceptible to all the common mistakes you can do in C (buffer overflows, etc).

Rust fork comming in 3, 2, 1, ...

[starshipeleven]

It's only a matter of time...

Oh come on, you're a fine guy on many things....

[nomadewolf]

Oh come on, you're a fine guy on many things....

It's a joke. I hope...