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| developer = [[Apache Software Foundation]]<ref>http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk/CREDITS</ref>

| released = {{Start date and age|2001|04|20}}

| latest release version = 3.4.4<ref>{{cite web | title=SpamAssassin: News and Announcements | accessdateaccess-date=2020-01-28 |url = http://spamassassin.apache.org/news.html}}</ref>

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==History==

Apache SpamAssassin was created by Justin Mason, who had maintained a number of patches against an earlier program named ''filter.plx'' by Mark Jeftovic, which in turn was begun in August 1997. Mason rewrote all of Jeftovic's code from scratch and uploaded the resulting codebase to [[SourceForge]] on April 20, 2001.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpamAssassin Prehistory |url=https://spamassassin.apache.org/old/prehistory/index.html |publisher=Apache Foundation |accessdateaccess-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>

In Summer 2004 the project became an [[Apache Software Foundation]] project and later officially renamed to ''Apache SpamAssassin''.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpamAssassin Project Incubation Status |url=http://incubator.apache.org/projects/spamassassin.html |publisher=Apache Foundation |accessdateaccess-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>

The SpamAssassin 3.4.2 release was the first in well over three years, but the developers say that "The project has picked up a new set of developers and is moving forward again.".<ref>{{cite web |title=SpamAssassin is back |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/769917/ |publisher=LWN.net |accessdateaccess-date=19 December 2018}}</ref> In late 2019, version 3.4.3 of SpamAssassin was released.

In late January, 2020, version 3.4.4 of SpamAssassin was released. This is primarily a security release and work on a pre-release of 4.0.0 is the project's focus.