POPFile is an automatic mail classification tool. Once properly set up and trained, it will work in the background of your computer, scanning mail as it arrives and filing it however you wish.

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.

POPFile It acts as a proxy between your email program and the mail server, scanning all incoming mail and then marks the mail according to your settings.

When you first install the program, it is dumb and does not perform any classification at all - it is designed to learn from your personal classifications and becomes more and more hands-off the longer you use it.

It will keep a history of all email messages that pass through the system and then will allow you to classify each message as spam, good or any other criteria (personal, work, important etc.).

These criteria are called "Buckets" and they are similar to virtual mail folders. The mail in each bucket will be tagged in a special way (subject, header), so you can instruct your email program to process it according to your preferences.

POPFile does not delete any email on its own, however you can instruct your email program to act upon messages that are tagged as spam (or anything else) and have them be deleted or send to a different mail folder.

The program offers an additional Quarantine option that can wrap the message in a container, allowing you to get an idea of the content, without actually opening any attachments or images of the original mail. POPfile uses Nive Bayes classification, which is highly effective an learns from your instructions.

Overall, POPfile provides great flexibility and accurate filtering, however it does require at least some basic understanding of email and POP accounts in order to use it effectively.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New features:
· You can now customize Subject Header modification placement (head or tail) by changing the new option 'bayes_subject_mod_pos'.
· NNTP module now caches articles received with the message number specified.
· You can now jump to message header/message body/quick magnets/scores in the single message view by clicking links on the head of the page.
· You can now filter messages shown in the history using 'reclassified' option.
· (ticket #67)

Improvements:
· The minimal Perl has been updated to the most recent 5.8 release. Since this release of Perl only officially supports Windows 2000 or later POPFile 1.1.1 may not work on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium or Windows NT. The installer will display a warning message explaining that POPFile may not work properly on these old systems.
· The Windows system tray icon's menu now offers options to visit the support website and check for new versions of POPFile.
· If the automatic version check feature has been turned on (via...