Mailing Lists
We generally discuss SpamAssassin and its development via the following mailing lists. Where available, there is a graph which shows you how much mail you should expect to hit your inbox if you subscribe.
Announce
For announcements of new versions of SpamAssassin.
- Subscription: send mail to announce-subscribe at spamassassin.apache.org
Archives: [http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.announce GMANE] [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-announce&r=1&w=2 MARC] (stale?)
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Users
A general user list.
Note: before you submit a question to the mailing list, please thoroughly read the FrequentlyAskedQuestions list and other info on the FrontPage, as your question is likely already answered there. If you've looked carefully but still can't find your answer, then go ahead and post – but be sure to note
- how you're invoking SpamAssassin (options are in UsingSpamAssassin),
- what version of SpamAssassin you're using, and
- your platform.
Please don't ask questions about versions older than 2.64 and 3.0.0, as you don't want to use an old version for the same reason you wouldn't use an out-of-date anti-virus scanner.
- Subscription: send mail to users-subscribe at spamassassin.apache.org
Archives: [http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listId=275 Apache] [http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general GMANE] [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-users&r=1&w=2 MARC]
Search: [http://search.gmane.org/search.php?query=&group=gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general GMANE]
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Dev
For developer discussions. If you're not already on the general users list, you should probably go there first
- Subscription: send mail to dev-subscribe at spamassassin.apache.org
Archives: [http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listId=274 Apache] [http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.devel GMANE] [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-devel&r=1&w=2 MARC]
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Commits
For SVN and Wiki change messages. If you don't know what they are, you don't want to be on this list, and if you're not already on SpamAssassin-users, you should probably go there first
- Subscription: send mail to commits-subscribe at spamassassin.apache.org
Archives: [http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listId=273 Apache] [http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.cvs GMANE]
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Dev-DE
A list for German-language rule development.
- Subscription: send mail to dev-de-subscribe at spamassassin.apache.org
Archives: [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-devel-de&r=1&w=2 MARC] [http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.devel.german GMANE]
Dev-BR
A list for Brazilian rule development.
Subscription: [http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/spamassassin-devel-br here]
Archives: [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-devel-br&r=1&w=2 MARC]
Security Issues
We treat security-related issues specially. If you believe you have discovered a security issue related to SpamAssassin, please send a mail to pmc at spamassassin.apache.org with full details.
Other Ways of Communication
["IRC"] is also an option.