SpamIntelligence for Outlook is released

[Christian Becker <ch...@fatorange.com>]

Dear all,
It is my pleasure to introduce SpamIntelligence, an Outlook plug-in that
comes with SpamAssassin 3.0 and ClamAV 0.80.
It's been in development for the good part of a year and provides some
interesting modifications to SpamAssassin:

Since many users don't keep copies of their spam, it comes with a
pre-initialized bayes database of spam. By providing a medium-sized
database of 2500 spam samples, I assume that the only discrepancy between
the spam that the user receives and the spam I provide are the header
fields that are added by the user's own mail servers (receiving paths,
server lingo).
Of course, these appear on all the user's messages, whether spam or ham -
so I require users to submit 10 spam samples of their own, identify the
relevant tokens, and hardly push them towards a neutral zone.
200 ham samples are still required; the results are very good.
If you're interested, I'll provide some source (or you could also hack
through the 'lib' dir of the installation).

There's some tweaks to Net::DNS and the modules using it: The scoreset is
switched depending on the network state (remember, this is currently a
product for home users), and the last known active nameserver is used for
background queries, instead of the first one in the list (which may be
long gone, since Windows collects old nameservers). I'll probably clean
this up and submit it to the Net::DNS folks soon.

It uses SDBM_File instead of DB_File for speed and licensing reasons.
SDBM_File seems to be performing really well; I haven't had a single
complaint about it.

Some quick stats on SI: It's available at http://www.spamint.com and free
for personal use, comes with an automatic updater, and for all you Linux
ppl out there using Outlook, there's a simple option to hide spam in IMAP
accounts (Outlook just grays it out by default).

Thanks for making this possible. I look forward to your comments.

Chris