Breath!: Spam Filtering for Email Clients

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Note: Breath! has been discontinued and is no longer available for download or supported.

Breath! is a lightweight spam filtering solution for POP3-based email clients on Windows systems. It runs as a local service and filters incoming email before delivery to the mail client.

Messages are checked against DNS-based blacklists from Spamhaus and SURBL, and then analysed using SpamAssassin. Suspected spam is marked by modifying the message subject, allowing simple client-side filtering rules.

Breath! includes a system tray application for basic administration and monitoring and was designed for use with POP3 email clients on Windows.

Project lifetime: Oct 2006 - Nov 2009

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