The SpamBayes team is pleased to announce release 1.1a1 of SpamBayes. As is now usual, this is both a release of the source code and of an installation program for all Microsoft Windows users. This is an *ALPHA* release. It should only be installed by users willing to try out experimental software, and almost certainly contains new bugs. If you don't know what an alpha release is, please stick with 1.0.4 for the moment. The 1.1 release has been worked on since May of 2004, so contains a vast number of improvements over the 1.0.x line. These include, but are not limited to: * New database backends, including ZODB and ZOE. * Internationalisation support, including partial translations into French and Spanish. * Improved statistics reporting. * The ability to set audio notifications with the Outlook plug-in. * The ability to set the Outlook plug-in to move/copy ham, as well as spam/unsures. * Partial POP3 over SSL support for sb_server. * A vastly improved sb_imapfilter. Suggestions about what to try out can be found here: http://entrian.com/sbwiki/TryOutThePreRelease This release, like the ill-fated 1.0.2 and 1.0.3, is built with Python 2.4. We believe that the remaining incompatibilities with Python 2.4 have been resolved, and so this release should also include superior email parsing to the 1.0.x line. Details about the changes in this release can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=318577 You can get the release via the 'Download' page at http://spambayes.org/download.html Enjoy the new release and your spam-free mailbox :-) As always, thanks to everyone involved in this release! Tony. (on behalf of the SpamBayes team) --- What is SpamBayes? --- The SpamBayes project is working on developing a Bayesian (of sorts) anti-spam filter (in Python), initially based on the work of Paul Graham, but since modified with ideas from Robinson, Peters, et al. The project includes a number of different applications, all using the same core code, ranging from a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, to a POP3 proxy, to various command-line tools. The Windows installation program will install either the Outlook add-in (for Microsoft Outlook users), the SpamBayes server program (for all other POP3 mail client users, including Microsoft Outlook Express), or the SpamBayes IMAP filter (for all IMAP mail client users). All Windows users (including existing users of the Outlook add-in) are encouraged to use the installation program. If you wish to use the source-code version, you will also need to install Python - see README.txt in the source tree for more information.