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title: Changes to spam filtering
description: We're moving spam filtering from Baruwa to Proxmox Mail Gateway. What's changing, when, and what you need to do.
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We're changing the platform that filters spam for our mail customers.

**Baruwa**, which we've used for years, reaches end of life in **November 2026** — its developers are stopping support and security updates. Rather than run mail filtering on software that no longer receives fixes, we're moving to **Proxmox Mail Gateway**.

## What this means for you

**For most customers, nothing changes and there's nothing to do.** Your address stays the same, your mailbox and its contents are untouched, and your email app keeps working without reconfiguration. Filtering continues throughout — we're changing what does it, not whether it happens.

If you're one of the customers who uses the Baruwa web interface directly — to review quarantined mail, or to manage your own allow and block lists — that's the part that changes, since Proxmox Mail Gateway has its own interface. **We'll contact you individually** to move you across and show you the equivalent screens. You don't need to do anything in the meantime.

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  Worth doing now, whoever you are: if you've built up allow or block lists in Baruwa that matter to you, take a copy. We'll migrate what we can, but having your own record makes it easy to confirm nothing was missed.
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## Timeline

| When | What happens |
| --- | --- |
| Now | Baruwa continues to run. We begin moving customers across. |
| Before November 2026 | Affected customers are contacted individually and migrated. |
| November 2026 | Baruwa reaches end of life and is retired. |

We'll update this page as the migration progresses.

## Questions we expect

**Will I lose quarantined mail?** Anything currently held in quarantine stays available until your migration. If something in there matters, release it to your inbox rather than leaving it quarantined.

**Do I need to change my email settings?** No. Server names, ports, and passwords are unaffected — see [Set up your email](/email/set-up-your-email-client/) if you're configuring a new device.

**Is my mail less protected during the change?** No. Filtering runs continuously through the migration; there's no window where mail is unfiltered.

**I'd rather opt out of filtering entirely.** Talk to us and we'll go through the options and the trade-offs.

## Related

- [Set up your email](/email/set-up-your-email-client/)
- [Create an email account](/whp/how-to/create-an-email-account/)

## Questions about your account?

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