FOSSPicks
Spam filtering
Rspamd 1.6.0
I covered an earlier version of this brilliant competitor to SpamAssassin before, but it's worth revisiting for two reasons. The first is that the pace of its development has been phenomenal, with the release of 1.6.0 being the pinnacle of 12 months of continued development. The second is that more people need to hear about Rspamd because, although SpamAssassin is brilliant and doing a wonderful job for thousands of people, it's always good to have a viable alternative. And, Rspamd is just that. It's a spam zapper that cuts out the cruft without taxing your CPU.
Updates over the past year have made huge improvements to its spam identification. For me, it correctly bounces around 95 percent of all the spam I receive, and that's probably 10 percent better than when I was running SpamAssassin. Rspamd can even use your SA filters, and it has the same Bayesian learning capabilities, which means spam you mark as junk is quickly assimilated by the recognition algorithms. It's also a lot less resource intensive than SpamAssassin and lives quite happily on a cheap low-end box hosted somewhere in the back of beyond. Version 1.6.0 made some big changes in the back end, mostly by removing the custom delivery agent, but the upgrade wasn't difficult. If you're already running a standard Postfix mail server, then installing Rspamd 1.6.0 is going to be easier than installing earlier versions, as you can miss out on a couple of important steps, but good configuration still takes time and patience – just like with SpamAssassin. Mostly, configuration files are migrated without your having to touch anything, and you get a quick and powerful spam filter for your own email. Combine this with something like Sieve on IMAP and your spam filtering can be almost as automatic and as good as Google's, only without the huge infringement on your privacy.
Project Website
![](/var/linux_magazin/storage/images/issues/2017/202/fosspicks/figbac49a4b0040abedf178df76956522ea.png/710540-1-eng-US/figbac49a4b0040abedf178df76956522ea.png_large.png)
Screen control
Buy this article as PDF
(incl. VAT)
Buy Linux Magazine
Subscribe to our Linux Newsletters
Find Linux and Open Source Jobs
Subscribe to our ADMIN Newsletters
Support Our Work
Linux Magazine content is made possible with support from readers like you. Please consider contributing when you’ve found an article to be beneficial.
![Learn More](https://www.linux-magazine.com/var/linux_magazin/storage/images/media/linux-magazine-eng-us/images/misc/learn-more/834592-1-eng-US/Learn-More_medium.png)
News
-
NVIDIA Released Driver for Upcoming NVIDIA 560 GPU for Linux
Not only has NVIDIA released the driver for its upcoming CPU series, it's the first release that defaults to using open-source GPU kernel modules.
-
OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 Released
If you’re into rolling release Linux distributions, OpenMandriva ROME has a new snapshot with a new kernel.
-
Kernel 6.10 Available for General Usage
Linus Torvalds has released the 6.10 kernel and it includes significant performance increases for Intel Core hybrid systems and more.
-
TUXEDO Computers Releases InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 Laptop
Sporting either AMD or Intel CPUs, the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 is an extremely compact, lightweight, sturdy powerhouse.
-
Google Extends Support for Linux Kernels Used for Android
Because the LTS Linux kernel releases are so important to Android, Google has decided to extend the support period beyond that offered by the kernel development team.
-
Linux Mint 22 Stable Delayed
If you're anxious about getting your hands on the stable release of Linux Mint 22, it looks as if you're going to have to wait a bit longer.
-
Nitrux 3.5.1 Available for Install
The latest version of the immutable, systemd-free distribution includes an updated kernel and NVIDIA driver.
-
Debian 12.6 Released with Plenty of Bug Fixes and Updates
The sixth update to Debian "Bookworm" is all about security mitigations and making adjustments for some "serious problems."
-
Canonical Offers 12-Year LTS for Open Source Docker Images
Canonical is expanding its LTS offering to reach beyond the DEB packages with a new distro-less Docker image.
-
Plasma Desktop 6.1 Released with Several Enhancements
If you're a fan of Plasma Desktop, you should be excited about this new point release.