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POPFile 1.1.1
Program Specifications
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| Version: |
1.1.1
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| Size: |
5.50 MB |
| Publisher: |
POPFile Project |
| Date Added: |
Jun 11, 2010 |
| License [?]: |
Open Source |
| Operating System: |
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 7, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000 |
| Requirements: |
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| Download Links: |
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Publisher's Description of POPFile
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" Automatically sorts your email messages and fights spam. "
- From POPFile Project
What is POPFile?
POPFile classifies email into categories you define. It can sort into spam and not spam or into any number of categories you like (e.g. work, personal, important project, hobby, etc.).
POPFile is an automatic mail classification tool. Once properly set up and trained, it will scan all email as it arrives and classify it based on your training. You can give it a simple job, like separating out junk e-mail, or a complicated one-like filing mail into a dozen folders. Think of it as a personal assistant for your inbox.
The classification is done using a naïve Bayes algorithm. In other words, POPFile uses statistics to track which words are likely to appear in which messages. This means that POPFile will adapt to the kind of mail you receive and needs to be trained. Out of the box, it doesn't know anything about spam or how messages from your mother differ from those your friends send you. However, if you train it, it will soon learn how to tell these different kinds of messages apart.
How does POPFile work?
POPFile is a proxy which sits between your mail client and your mail server. Commands generated by your email client are passed through POPFile to the email server. As messages are retrieved, POPFile reads incoming messages, tries to classify them to the categories you have defined and then passes them on to your email client.
Email server–>POPFile–>Email client
How does POPFile know how to sort email properly? It uses an old, but powerful mathematical technique known as Bayes Theorem (to be precise, Naïve Bayes created by Reverend Thomas Bayes around 1720.)
POPFile breaks down messages into words, parses attachments and filters out HTML, and then uses this algorithm to automatically sort a message into different "buckets" that you have defined. Your email client can then transfer the messages into different mailboxes based on the bucket classification. POPFile learns by determining the messages characteristics associated with each bucket.
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