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POPFile Changelog

What's new in POPFile 1.1.3

Dec 4, 2015
  • POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, POP3,
  • SMTP, NNTP proxies and IMAP filter and a web interface. It runs on most
  • platforms and with most email clients.
  • This maintenance release fixes some bugs.
  • Installers are provided for Windows XP or later and Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.5.x,
  • 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion).
  • The minimal Perl used by the Windows version has been upgraded and as a result.
  • Windows 9x, Windows Millennium, Windows NT and Windows 2000 are no longer
  • officially supported.

New in POPFile 1.1.2 (Dec 4, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug that the installer for Windows does not install enough Perl
  • modules for SSL support by default. (ticket #166)
  • Fixed a bug that POPFile records a wrong message, "Can't write to the
  • configuration file", when it shuts down. (ticket #165)
  • Fixed a bug that IMAP module of POPFile sometimes crashes when the network
  • connection is lost.

New in POPFile 1.1.1 (Apr 1, 2010)

  • 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 the Security tab in the User Interface) then the system tray icon will change and a message box will be displayed. This check is performed once per day.
  • Now that all known problems with the system tray icon have been fixed it will
  • be enabled by default in new installations. (ticket #106)
  • The Windows installer now preselects the relevant components when upgrading or modifying an existing installation. (tickets #13 and #26)
  • The Windows installer can now display the UI properly even if the database is
  • very large (tens of MB). (ticket #109)
  • Fixed a problem that POPFile does not work on Japanese Windows when the path of the data directory contains non-ASCII characters (e.g. the user name is written in Japanese). (ticket #111)
  • The installer is now compatible with Windows 7.
  • The users who are using very large database (tens of MB) will be able to
  • reclassify messages faster. (ticket #108)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug that POPFile returned "does not appear in any of the buckets"
  • when user searched a word in the ignored word list. (ticket #75)
  • Fixed a bug that POPFile added blank Subject to quarantined message which
  • had no Subject header. (ticket #92)
  • Fixed a bug that POPFile used only message header to classify messages when GLOBAL_message_cutoff was set to 0. (ticket #93)
  • Fixed a bug that the message history was not shown correctly after
  • removing/renaming buckets or after removing magnets. (ticket #73)
  • XMLRPC support has been fixed in the Windows version (it was broken in 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.1.0). (ticket #103)

New in POPFile 1.0.1 (Jul 15, 2008)

  • 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/

New in POPFile 1.0.0 (Dec 21, 2007)

  • Changes to the IMAP module / Support for Gmail IMAP: The IMAP module will now use only one connection to the IMAP server, instead of one connection for each watched folder. This means that when using IMAP mode, POPFile will be much lighter on the server and will even work with IMAP servers that are restrictively configured or if you have many buckets. As a consequence, you should now be able to
  • let POPFile sort your email on Google's Gmail.
  • Nihongo improvements: Japanese (Nihongo) text does not use spaces between words so POPFile uses a 'Nihongo Parser' to split the text into words to allow the text to be analysed properly. Up until now POPFile has used the 'Kakasi' parser when analysing Japanese text. The 1.0.0 release offers a choice of three parsers (Kakasi, MeCab and internal). The new 'bayes_nihongo_parser' configuration parameter is used to specify the parser to be used (the default parser is Kakasi).
  • Installer improvements: To make it easier to add SSL support after installing POPFile the installer now creates an "Add/Remove Programs" entry which allows SSL support to be added by downloading and installing the necessary support files. This entry also allows the Nihongo parser to be changed and will download the MeCab package if necessary.
  • UI improvements: Change the default skin choice to simplyblue. Add two new skins, coolmint and ocean. Drop less popular skins: klingon, prjbluegrey, and prjsteelbeach. Merge nearly duplicate tinydefault and lrclaptop with smalldefault. Add a little bit of polish to many of the others.
  • Other improvements: Performance improvement in analyzing e-mails. Encoded attachment file names are now decoded. Fixed a bug that missed some e-mail addresses.