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I'm a happy dspam user (most stuff won't reach me), but looked into this one in the past.

Reasons for me not to give it a try:

- Rule based mostly (which I think of as 'SA')

- No db support, as far as I could tell. My dspam keeps everything in a postgresql db and I can easily backup/restore that with all my other stuff (dovecot/postfix virtual users, for example)

- ~Easy~ to integrate into anything. Look for 'how can I make dovecot-antispam integrate with dspam' and that's been done a thousand times (and works nicely). I haven't found a decent number of rspam resources

That said: My whole post basically says that I didn't try it (for reasons that were important to me). Their site looks interesting and in the end I guess I'd love to hear about successful dspam->rspam migrations as well.

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I was a very happy dspam user for about three days -- SpamAssassin's accuracy on my setup is terrible, and dspam performed pretty well (and increasingly so with training).

Then, dspam started segfaulting, and none of my e-mail was delivered. I looked into what was going on, and it appeared that the dspam hash database had somehow become corrupted; and since dspam is completely unmaintained these days, it was unlikely that whatever bug I tripped upon would ever be fixed.

Sigh. I also would like to hear user reports about rspamd! I am getting sick of the false negative rate that I'm getting from SpamAssassin.

> - No db support, as far as I could tell. My dspam keeps everything in a postgresql db and I can easily backup/restore that with all my other stuff (dovecot/postfix virtual users, for example)

Rspamd appears to use sqlite3: https://rspamd.com/doc/workers/fuzzy_storage.html

Hey.

Thanks, but.. That's not quite what I had in mind. For one, somedb-only (sqlite or anything else) is usually not enough. I would hesitate to introduce a system that just supports mysql when everything else is using postgresql for me, for example. And on top of that, this schema is .. limited. My dspam setup learns and can do that for each and every user (though system wide training seems to be the norm, as far as I can tell). This is really just a storage engine as far as I can tell and not really comparable.

That said: I guess I would give rspam a try if I saw a lot of positive reviews/reports. It's just that it certainly doesn't do the same thing as dspam. It's quite a different animal.

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