Robin Keir heeft een nieuwe versie uitgebracht van het spam-markeerprogramma K9. Dit kleine programma controleert de binnengekomen mail van een POP3-mailbox en markeert daarbij de reclameberichten. Bovendien "leert" K9 van zijn fouten waardoor het nog beter de post kan controleren. Versie 1.17 is onlangs uitgebracht en heeft de volgende release notes mee gekregen:
Version 1.17:Version 1.16:
- Added DNSBL support.
- Fixed problem decoding MIME headers with some emails.
- Enhanced the right-click filter context menu.
- Rules added from right-click context menu are checked for duplicates before being added to lists.
- Shows overall accuracy statistic in the status bar.
- Added database "trim" feature to Statistics tab. This can help reduce the size of the databases, improve load times and reduce memory usage.
- Added extra code to detect and ignore "junk" words hidden in HTML.
- Databases are again saved to disk at exit. Reclassifying emails and exiting K9 before an email session occurred would not have recorded changes in the DBs.
- Fixed some problems with reading emails on the Server Check tab.
- Improved list display update speed for Organize.