“SpamAssassin 3 Looks Great!”

Since Macrobyte's new server needs to be configured from scratch anyway, I decided to check the status of SpamAssassin 3. If it was ready, I'd start out with that rather than 2.63. Unfortunately, it's not due out until next month.

Still, it looks great! Check out the release notes for SpamAssassin 3.0.0-pre2, which is expected to be the last pre-release version. It looks like they've improved nearly everything, and they've rolled in most of the custom rulesets that we're all using anyway.

Lots of performance improvements, too.

Oh, and I see they've built in support for SPF, the Sender Policy Framework. I've been trying to ignore SPF since I first heard about it, as supporting it will require a lot of changes to DNS, the mail servers, and probably other areas. Now that some of the big guys (like Hotmail) are supporting or planning to support it, I'm starting to think it's not going away. Yippee.