ANNOUNCE: SAproxy - a Windows SpamAssassin POP3 proxy

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If you can use POP for anything, this may be even better than POPfile.

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From: Daniel Quinlan <http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan>
Newsgroups: gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:46:58 -0800
Message-ID: <15941.49442.782921.537013@proton.pathname.com>

I'm pleased to announce the beta release of SAproxy, a SpamAssassin POP3
proxy for Windows 98, 2000, ME, and XP.  (SAproxy was formerly known as
pop3proxy, we picked the new name to be a bit clearer.)

What it is:

  SAproxy is an easy-to-use anti-spam solution built on SpamAssassin.
  It is completely open source (Perl Artistic License) and free to use.
  If you read your mail via POP3 on a Windows system, you can use
  SAproxy to automatically detect incoming spam, mark it as spam, and
  then your mail client can filter it into a spam folder.

Supported platforms:

  SAproxy currently supports Windows 98, 2000, ME, and XP.  Other
  versions of Windows are not supported and have not been tested.

  It also works on Unix systems and there's a command-line interface.
  For the moment, you'll unfortunately need to download it via CVS and
  hand-install it if you want to use it on Unix.  An easier-to-install
  Unix version is one of the goals.

How it works:

  SAproxy works by standing between the mail client and the POP3 server,
  filtering the data being passed between the two.  When a mail message is
  retrieved, the proxy waits to read the full message before handing it to
  the client.  After SAproxy has the full message, it uses SpamAssassin to
  determine whether it's spam, marks the message accordingly, and then
  returns the message to the client.

Getting it:

  http://saproxy.bloomba.com/

Beta release:

  Note that this is a beta release!  That means we're still working to
  make SAproxy and the documentation better.

  All of the SAproxy code is in the SpamAssassin CVS tree under the
  "pop3" module.

Mailing list:

 A mailing list for users of SAproxy is located at
 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-saproxy/

 That list is a public forum for users of SAproxy to ask usage
 questions, discuss SAproxy, and provide feedback.  On the Bloomba site,
 there is also an address where you can send comments to the authors and
 an SAproxy announcements list.

  SAproxy was developed by Dan McDonald (the project founder), Johan
  Lindstrom (the original GUI), and myself (a bit of everything).

  My own work on SAproxy and the web site was commissioned by Stata
  Labs (who are developing Bloomba).

  SpamAssassin is a trademark of Deersoft, Inc.