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Go to an Email in POPFile Directly from Your Email Client

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When you've just started using POPFile, it will make lots of classification errors. It's probably best to open the POPFile user interface in your browser and use the History to re-classify them en masse.

But after a bit of training, POPFile's errors will be few and far between. Time to discover an alternative way to open and re-classify a specific message in POPFile.

Using a special header inserted by POPFile as it categorizes mail, you can go o any message directly. First, we need to make sure POPFile does indeed insert this header:

  • Open the POPFile user interface.
  • Go to the Configuration tab.
  • Make sure X-POPFile-Link Header is On under Message Text Insertion.
    • If it is not, use the Turn On button.

Now all it takes to go to a message in POPFile from the same message in your email client is a bit of copy and paste:

  • View the source of the message in your email program.
  • Look for a line starting with "X-POPFile-Link:" in the headers.
  • Highlight the URL following it.
    • The URL is enclosed in '<>' brackets.
    • Typically, it looks like "http://­localhost:8080/­jump_to_message?­view=popfile1850=1.msg".
  • Press Ctrl-C.
  • Open a new web browser window.
  • Highlight the URL in the browser window's address bar.
  • Press Ctrl-V.
    • The address bar should now point to the X-POPFile-Link URL.
  • Press Return.

Now you can easily find out all about what made POPFile classify the message in exactly the way it did, and you can easily re-categorize it, too.

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