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22 September 2004 - Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.0 is released

Forest Hill, MD - September 22, 2004 -- The Apache Software Foundation is pleased to announce the release of SpamAssassin 3.0. SpamAssassin 3.0 contains a number of new technologies designed to protect against the changing techniques used by spammers. This is the first SpamAssassin release as an Apache Software Foundation project and under the Apache License. The release is available from the Apache SpamAssassin web site (http://spamassassin.apache.org/) via the Apache mirror network.

SpamAssassin 3.0 delivers many new features including support for sender authentication using the Sender Policy Framework (SPF), checking for web links of known spam advertisers, a modular plugin architecture, improved SQL database support for storing user data in server installations, and improved email classification.

SpamAssassin's practical multi-technique approach, modularity, and extensibility continue to give it an advantage over other anti-spamsystems. Due to these advantages, SpamAssassin is widely used in all aspects of email management. You can readily find SpamAssassin in use in both email clients and servers, on many different operating systems, filtering incoming as well as outgoing email, and implementing a very broad range of policy actions. These installations include service providers, businesses, not-for-profit and educational organizations, and end-user systems. SpamAssassin also forms the basis for numerous commercial anti-spam products available on the market today.

About SpamAssassin

SpamAssassin is an intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as "spam". These tests are applied to email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical methods. In addition, SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that allows other technologies to be quickly wielded against spam and is designed for easy integration into virtually any email system.

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Project Info -- Apache SpamAssassin

Apache SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter which is used to identify spam. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of advanced heuristic and statistical analysis tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited bulk email. 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.

Releases can be downloaded from http://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.html

Project Website	http://spamassassin.apache.org/
Programming Languages	Perl, C
Categories	mail
Mailing Lists	http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/
Wiki	http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/
Project Management Committee	Apache SpamAssassin

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/spamassassin/trunk/?root=Apache-SVN
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk