Leading Open Source Email Filtering Package Offers First Major Code Release
Since 2007
FOREST HILL, MD – 26 January, 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today
announced the release of Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0, the first major code
release from the Apache SpamAssassin Project since May 2007. Apache
SpamAssassin v3.3.0 marks the Project's 4th major (and 24th overall release)
since the SpamAssassin Project joined the ASF in December 2003.
Apache SpamAssassin is an award winning, mature, wide-spectrum, extensible
email filtering package deployed by hundreds of thousands of organizations
world-wide.
Apache SpamAssassin is the leading Open Source email spam filtering software
package that is in use by national, regional and local ISPs, email service
providers, Fortune Global 500 companies, small to
enterprise businesses, all levels of the education sector, governments and
private individuals, said Daryl C. W. O'Shea, Chair of the Apache SpamAssassin
Project Management Committee (PMC) and Information Technology Coordinator at
the Township of Tay in Ontario, Canada. SpamAssassin is also in use at the
core of many commercial offerings of premier email and spam filtering firms:
with its automatic update feature, sa-update, SpamAssassin now not only saves
the time of end-users, it saves the time of email administrators, further
increasing the software's ROI. We're very proud that SpamAssassin has become
the standard for extensible and effective spam filtering software.
Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0 represents a major shift in how SpamAssassin rules
(the actual patterns that help to identify spam) are updated. Starting with
version 3.3.0, rules are now separate from the core product and are instead
downloaded using sa-update, SpamAssassin's automatic update software. This
method was optional with the 3.2.x series of releases and has proven to be very
popular.
SpamAssassin provides a comprehensive set of features and support for methods
and standards such as text based patterns, bayesian scoring, DNS based black
and white lists, DKIM and SPF sender authentication, and email signature
clearing houses. The software utilizes a principle of identifying multiple
reasons for classifying an email as spam to improve accuracy and decrease the
chance of legitimate emails being incorrectly identified as spam.
Les Tutkaluke, President of netGUARD Solutions said, NetGUARD Solutions has
been utilizing SpamAssassin for 8 years starting with version 1.0. The advanced
e-mail scanning functions within the processing engines of netGUARD Solutions
manages in excess of 75 million messages per day for our vast customer
subscriber base. SpamAssassin is an integral and admirable addition to our
filtering system and is a significant part of the accurate identification of
unwanted e-mail. The success of netGUARD Solutions is directly tied to
SpamAssassin and the solid programming within it.
Over the past 365 days, SpamAssassin has blocked 516,975 unsolicited junk
mails while letting through 85,032 clean ones. Without SpamAssassin email would
simply be unusable. It is an essential component to our business activities,
said Jean-Yves Avenard, SysAdmin at Hydrix Pty Ltd, Australia.
Released under the Apache Software Licence v2.0, Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0 can
be downloaded at http://spamassassin.apache.org/; additional user reviews and
industry testimonials are available at
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Testimonials
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