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 ]
· When POPFile starts up it no longer complains about a missing IMAP file if IMAP has not been installed.
· Fixed a bug in the IMAP module that allowed for unintentional reclassification to the unclassified bucket.
· Fixed a bug that causes segmentation faults when displaying messages which have very long To, Cc or From headers in the POPFile UI.
· Fixed a bug that causes a few warnings during the corpus upgrade process.
· Add code to check for unexpected NULL characters in email messages (to avoid SQLite problems).
· POPFile's Brazilian Portuguese language file has been renamed. The new name does not include any spaces.
· The simplified and traditional Chinese language translations have been updated.
· POPFile's log file now includes entries showing when POPFile starts up and shuts down. This makes it easier to read the log file.
· The startup messages in the log file have been made easier to read by splitting the long entries into shorter lines.
· The IMAP module now issues a log message when it fails to connect to the server.
· Deletion of messages from the message history has been made faster.
· When upgrading an existing installation the installer now recommends upgrading the existing SSL support files.
· The installer and all of the NSIS-based programs have been built using the latest NSIS compiler and newer versions of the plugins used to download files from the internet. These NSIS-related improvements should reduce the number of false alarms from various anti-virus packages.
· The latest version of the SQLite command-line utility is now included.
· The links to the wiki have been improved.
· The (outdated) manual is no longer included in the download. All documentation for POPFile is online and can be found at http://getpopfile.org/docs/
