SpamAssassin 3.0.0

[Gordon Darling]

SpamAssassin 3.0.0

An extensible email filter that is used to identify spam.

About:
SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter that is used to identify spam.
Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later
filtering. It provides a command line tool to perform filtering, a
client-server system to filter large volumes of mail, and
Mail::SpamAssassin, a set of Perl modules allowing SpamAssassin to be used
in a wide variety of email systems.

Changes:
Now part of the ASF and uses the Apache License 2.0. Now includes support
for SPF. Web site links contained in the message are checked against SURBL
and SBL. The new 3.0 architecture allows third-parties to easily add plugin
modules. SQL database support for both the Bayes and auto-whitelist
modules. A more accurate simulation of email client handling of MIME and
HTML improves our accuracy. Better detection and handling of spammer
techniques that try to trick anti-spam software. And a new logo!

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: The Apache License 2.0
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spamassassin/

Homepage:
http://spamassassin.apache.org
Tar/GZ:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/spamassassin/15434/url_tgz/downloads.cgi
Tar/BZ2:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/spamassassin/15434/url_bz2/downloads.cgi
Zip:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/spamassassin/15434/url_zip/downloads.cgi
RPM package:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/spamassassin/15434/url_rpm/downloads.cgi

Regards
Gordon

 

[John Corliss]

SpamAssassin 3.0.0

An extensible email filter that is used to identify spam.

About:
SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter that is used to identify spam.
Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later
filtering. It provides a command line tool to perform filtering, a
client-server system to filter large volumes of mail, and
Mail::SpamAssassin, a set of Perl modules allowing SpamAssassin to be used
in a wide variety of email systems.

Changes:
Now part of the ASF and uses the Apache License 2.0. Now includes support
for SPF. Web site links contained in the message are checked against SURBL
and SBL. The new 3.0 architecture allows third-parties to easily add plugin
modules. SQL database support for both the Bayes and auto-whitelist
modules. A more accurate simulation of email client handling of MIME and
HTML improves our accuracy. Better detection and handling of spammer
techniques that try to trick anti-spam software. And a new logo!

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: The Apache License 2.0
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spamassassin/

Homepage:
http://spamassassin.apache.org
Tar/GZ:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/spamassassin/15434/url_tgz/downloads.cgi
Tar/BZ2:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/spamassassin/15434/url_bz2/downloads.cgi
Zip:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/spamassassin/15434/url_zip/downloads.cgi
RPM package:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/spamassassin/15434/url_rpm/downloads.cgi

Regards
Gordon

Do they now have a port to Windows?

 

[Gordon Darling]

Do they now have a port to Windows?

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/InstallingOnWindows
&
http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html

Read all the details at the above link. You'll need Perl.

Good Luck.
Gordon

 

[John Corliss]

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/InstallingOnWindows
&
http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html

Read all the details at the above link. You'll need Perl.

Thanks, Gordon. I'll check it all out. SpamAssassin is the program my
ISP uses to filter out spam on the server. Works better than anything
else out there according to them.

 

[Gordon Darling]

Thanks, Gordon. I'll check it all out. SpamAssassin is the program my
ISP uses to filter out spam on the server. Works better than anything
else out there according to them.

There are a lot of people who would agree with them John. However, if your
ISP is already running SA and have facilities for users to report false
positives and whitelist wanted emails it might be overkill to run it on
your own machine?

Regards
Gordon

 

[Gordon Darling]

Thanks, Gordon. I'll check it all out. SpamAssassin is the program my
ISP uses to filter out spam on the server. Works better than anything
else out there according to them.

There are a lot of people who would agree with them John. However, if your
ISP is already running SA and have facilities for users to report false
positives and whitelist wanted emails it might be overkill to run it on
your own machine?

Regards
Gordon

 

[Gordon Darling]

Thanks, Gordon. I'll check it all out. SpamAssassin is the program my
ISP uses to filter out spam on the server. Works better than anything
else out there according to them.

There are a lot of people who would agree with them John. However, if your
ISP is already running SA and have facilities for users to report false
positives and whitelist wanted emails it might be overkill to run it on
your own machine?

Regards
Gordon

 

[Gordon Darling]

Thanks, Gordon. I'll check it all out. SpamAssassin is the program my
ISP uses to filter out spam on the server. Works better than anything
else out there according to them.

There are a lot of people who would agree with them John. However, if your
ISP is already running SA and have facilities for users to report false
positives and whitelist wanted emails it might be overkill to run it on
your own machine?

Regards
Gordon

 

[Rod]

Snip

Regards
Gordon

Am I the only one who got this post at least 4 times ?
And yes: If your ISP is running SpamAssassin it's a bit much to run it on
your own system. My mail-ISP has it , and let's you configure some settings
to your own preferences. I think it's a great profram.

 

[John Corliss]

There are a lot of people who would agree with them John. However, if your
ISP is already running SA and have facilities for users to report false
positives and whitelist wanted emails it might be overkill to run it on
your own machine?

Indeed. However, I have clients whose machines could make good use of
the program.