SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. The project provides a framework/engine and regular rule updates that reflect the changing nature of spam email seen in the wild. Updated rules are generated through a combination of hand crafted contributions and automated processing of spam and anonymized processed non-spam that are contributed by volunteers.
Project state: Ongoing with low to moderate activity
Primary focus for development is now ongoing maintenance bug fixes to the latest release, 4.0.1.
Issues for the board: Giovanni Bechis has been selected as new Chair, to be approved by Board
Apache SpamAssassin was founded 2004-06-01 (20 years ago)
There are currently 33 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- PMC members:
Sidney Markowitz resigned as Chair, pending confirmation of his replacement
Giovanni Bechis was selected as new Chair, to be confirmed by the Board
Last addition was Kent Oyer on 2024-11-09.
Michel Parker resigned on 2025-03-02, recognized as emeritus by PMC
- No new committers. Last addition was Kent Oyer on 2024-03-29.
Last release was Apache SpamAssassin version 4.0.1 on 29 March 2024.
We maintain online rule updates that are continuously updated through a combination of developer contributions and automated processing via our mass-check facility.
On 28 February 2025, the server that was donated to ASF by Sonic.net for sa-update.spamassassin.org was decomissioned, replaced by newer infrastructure we have available.
Maintenance of our rule update infrastructure, developer community submissions for rule update testing, and our dev and user mailing lists, are continuing smoothly.