This module is intended to enable the adoption and reading of SpamAssassin rules within Rspamd.
SpamAssassin offers a comprehensive set of rules that prove useful in low-volume environments. The purpose of this plugin is to integrate these rules seamlessly into Rspamd. The configuration process for this plugin is straightforward. All you need to do is compile your SpamAssassin rules into a single file and feed it to the SpamAssassin module:
spamassassin {
ruleset = "/path/to/file";
base_ruleset = "/var/db/spamassassin/3.004002/updates_spamassassin_org/*.cf";
# Limit search size to 100 kilobytes for all regular expressions
match_limit = 100k;
# Those regexp atoms will not be passed through hyperscan:
pcre_only = ["RULE1", "__RULE2"];
}
Rspamd has the capability to read several files containing SpamAssassin rules, and it also supports glob patterns. All rules are parsed into a uniform structure, which means that if an individual rule occurs multiple times, it may be overwritten.
Rspamd tries to optimize SA rules quite aggressively. Some of that optimizations
are described in the following presentation.
To achieve this objective, Rspamd treats all rules as expression atoms. While meta
rules are considered as real Rspamd rules that possess their symbol and score,
other rules are typically concealed. Nevertheless, it is possible to specify a minimum
score required for a rule to be treated as a normal rule.
alpha = 0.1
By configuring the spamassassin section in this manner, all rules with scores greater
than 0.1 will be regarded as full-fledged rules, and evaluated accordingly. (Do note,
however, that alpha will not be applicable to rules lacking a score line in the file.)
At present, Rspamd boasts the following functions:
existsAs of now, Rspamd does not offer support for network plugins, HTML plugins, and some other plugins. However, this features are planned to incorporate these features in upcoming releases of Rspamd.
Despite these limitations, the majority of SpamAssassin rules can be utilized in Rspamd, rendering the transition process far more seamless for users who opt to switch from SpamAssassin to Rspamd.
The overall performance of Rspamd is somewhat diminished when processing SpamAssassin rules, as these rules incorporate numerous inefficient regular expressions that scour through voluminous text bodies. Nevertheless, the optimizations implemented by Rspamd can markedly reduce the workload required to process SpamAssassin rules. Furthermore, if the PCRE library is constructed with JIT support, Rspamd can gain a substantial boost in performance. Upon launching, Rspamd indicates whether JIT compilation is available and issues a warning if it is not. It is worth noting that certain regular expressions might benefit from “hyperscan” support, which is accessible on x86_64 platforms as of Rspamd version 1.1.
The SpamAssassin plugin is implemented in Lua and encompasses numerous functional components. As a result, to enhance its speed, one may wish to compile Rspamd with luajit, a high-speed engine that approaches the speed of standard C. Since Rspamd version 0.9, LuaJIT has been enabled by default.