SPASTIC / News: Recent posts

minor bug fixes, added documentation on how to integrate SPASTIC and ClamAV.

Added check for too many consecutive consonants and/or numbers in subject and from headers, HTML e-mail is flagged as spam by default, whitelist is scanned for blank lines.

see changelog for details (available on project web site).

see changelog for details (available on project web site).

See changelog for details.

This release includes one new filter (Content-Type:) and associated filter file (reject-type) as well as vastly updated documentation. The rotate-spam script has also been improved to provide a detailed report of captured spam and now uses the logrotate naming for backup spam files.

New install/upgrade setup script, default directory moved to $HOME/.spastic, now adds a "SPAM Like" Subject header for easily tracking why e-mails are flagged and for reporting, major enhancments to rotate-spam script.

This release has major new features, including two new tests on the subject (null and too many spaces), new tests for valid e-mail address formats, optional tests for valid address domains, a new optional "allowed" file to severely restrict who can send e-mail to you, new alternative way of flagging SPAM to make it easier to use with evolution/kmail/etc. Also, all documentation is available in English and Portuguese.

Major performance improvements, minor bug fixes, documentation for integration with Postfix (global settings for filtering mail for ALL users), more reject files.

New version adds better editing, rotate-spam script and better documentation.

The first new release of spastic since 1999 was released two days ago. It features some enhancements to the orignal package including a whilelist and more filters. You can download it from the project page or project web site (http://spastic.sourceforge.net).

The original spast-1.5 can also be nabbed from the project page.

The SPASTIC project was born from the original SPAST project by Chrissy LeMaire. It was just too useful to be left alone :)

I have lots of ideas for improving on the procmail code, but it will take little while to get the project set up here. Please be patient.