Comment 19 for bug 9870

In respect of SpamAssassin, the SpamAssassin version currently
packaged with Dapper (and Edgy!) is 3.1.0 - now ten months (and four releases!) out of date.

This makes it (sadly) to all intents and purposes useless as a spam filtering solution for real world deployment. The spam/spam filtering arena is effectively an arms race; the only way to filter spam effectively using SpamAssassin is to get current and stay current.

I have raised this as a bug in and of itself:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/spamassassin/+bug/54480