SpamAssassin 3.4.1 released

SpamAssassin 3.4.1 released

"But the whole thing still seems to be built around the idea that people can be spammers part of the time and senders of legitimate email at others. Perhaps your editor is an excessively unforgiving character, but it seems like the sender of known spam should not get off lightly with a gradual tweaking of a reputation score; once a spammer, always a spammer. Trust is hard to earn but easy to lose; the TxRep mechanism still doesn't quite reflect that fact."

I wonder whether this is designed around the case where malware that has harvested an address book then poses as that user to send mail to their known contacts. I've certainly seen this (fortunately rarely) amongst my contacts with the result that I occasionally get malware spam from friends. In such a case I wouldn't expect to blacklist them forever on a first-strike basis.

Great news to hear about the update, though, and I second that SA is helping to keep email very much alive and well.