Happy 18th Birthday, Apache SpamAssassin™ software to stop spam Sidney Markowitz Chair, Apache SpamAssassin PMC
[email protected] linkedin.com/in/sidneymarkowitz What is SpamAssassin? A scoring framework An API and a program In Plesk and cPanel and … What is SpamAssassin? A scoring framework An API and a program In Plesk and cPanel and … (You might be using it and not even know it) SpamAssassin timeline, conception to birth 20 Apr 2001 - Justin Mason first commits code to Sourceforge repo 05 Sep 2001 - SpamAssassin 1.0 released 19 Sep 2001 - SpamAssassin 1.1 released 29 Sep 2001 - SpamAssassin 1.2 released 11 Oct 2001 - Genetic Algorithm to score rules (machine learning) 16 Oct 2001 - spamc/spamd client server added 25 Oct 2001 - SpamAssassin 1.3 released 15 Nov 2001 - SpamAssassin 1.4 released 23 Jan 2002 - SpamAssassin 2.0 released SpamAssassin timeline, childhood 23 Jan 2002 - SpamAssassin 2.0 released 20 Feb 2003 - SpamAssassin 2.50 released - Plugin support! 21 Aug 2003 - SpamAssassin 2.60 released 20 Dec 2003 - SpamAssassin becomes an Apache incubator project 23 Jun 2004 - SpamAssassin graduates to full Apache Project status 22 Sep 2004 - Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.0 released SpamAssassin timeline, release, release... 22 Sep 2004 - Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.0 released 14 Sep 2005 SpamAssassin 3.1.0 released Awards! Datamatation’s Product of the Year Anti-Spam Category 2005, 2006 Linux New Media Awards 2006 Best Linux Anti-Spam Solution 02 May 2007 SpamAssassin 3.2.0 released (3.1.x releases continue) 01 Jan 2010 - Y2K10 bug found and