Spamato 0.99.9 released

The Spamato development team is proud to announce the release of version 0.99.9 of the Spamato spam filter system (http://spamato.sourceforge.net).

Spamato bundles several spam filtering techniques to effectively combat spam. It can directly be integrated into popular email clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird or work as a stand-alone proxy component with any other email client. Spamato has (partially) been written in Java and works on all major platforms. That is, it is a real alternative to any 'built-in-but-does-not-work-well' solution.

This release contains several bugfixes and improvements over previous versions. Specifically, we sought to "unify" some plugin behavior, fixes several annoyances, we now have a slightly nicer web configuration layout, and most important: we have integrated a database to store all the data. The main advantage is that we do not have to store all the stuff (Filter History, URL, Senders, Bayesianato) in memory anymore, which led to quite some high memory usage in the past. Memory consumption is still not low, but it will not grow indefinitely as before. Additionally, the DB offers us some functionality that we might need for future tasks of Spamato. Note that this update does not contain many new add-on features, for instance, S4T still cannot be configured to filter specific folders other than Inboxes. This will be part of 1.0. See the change log for more details.

Some things you should consider when updating:

1) S4T: If the update does not work, give Spamato a few seconds to shut down before restarting TB.
2) S4O on Vista: If you see an error message such as "An error occured installing the package. Windows installer returned '1638'.", just uninstall the old Spamato version.
3) As we are importing all your old data into our new DB infrastructure when starting 0.99.9 the first time, it might take a while (up to a few minutes) before the "loading..." switches to the statistics numbers. You shouldn't restart Spamato before it is up and running, otherwise Spamato tries to import the data again and again until it succeeds.
4) If you update from version 0.99 (instead of 0.99.1.x), you will lose your URL whitelist. It is highly recommended to first update to 0.99.1.x and then to 0.99.9 anyway.

You can find more installation instructions on our Wiki pages: http://spamato.wiki.sourceforge.net/

Spamato is available for download here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136033

Stay tuned and give us feedback (many thanks to our beta testers)! http://spamato.sourceforge.net