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Most spammers are highly automated, and always ignore replies. However, some of them actually read every response, and go to the effort to white-list themselves.

For these cases, a new 'not' command has been added to the .whitelist file, allowing you to specify individuals and domains which you will never allow through.

To speed up send/receive, Evochallenge now posts challenges and forwards held mail in seperate threads that execute in parallel.

In addition, since many challenges simply bounce back, there is a new bounced challenge test automatically installed in the Junk filter.

Spammers are taking action against challenge-response e-mail filters! They now are beginning to automatically respond to challenge e-mails.

In order to eliminate these would-be spammers from your Inbox, Evochallege now allows you to create a custom challenge question, such as "What color is the sky on a clear day?"

Custom user-defined challenges raise the level of intelligence required by a spam-bot to that of truely human. Until a spam-bot can pass the Turing Test, it will not fair well against random questions invented by Evochallenge users.

The smtp-client from Michal Ludvig has been integrated into Evochallenge, release 0.2.5. This eliminates the requirement that users configure sendmail to forward held mail, greatly simplifying Evochallenge configuration.

While an excellent full-featured package, sendmail is a multi-user mail agent, making it difficult to configure common parameters such as SMTP user and password. The new SMTP client included in Evochallenge is trivally configured in the .whitelist configuration file.... read more

Version 0.2 eliminates hard-coded e-mails in the perl scripts, and simplifies installation.

Evochallenge, an challenge/response e-mail filter for Evolution, succeeded in catching over 1,700 spam e-mails directed towards the author in it's first 30 days of operation. Spam into Inbox was virtually eliminated.

With people hiding their real e-mails, and using free "junk" e-mails for shopping on-line, the entire internet community is held hostage by spammers. Challenge/response e-mail filters are the solution.