The Bottom Line
POPFile is a powerful and flexible email classification POP and NNTP proxy that you can use to filter spam efficiently and categorize good mail automatically.
Unfortunately, POPFile can grow a bit heavy on memory and CPU load if you have trained on lots of mail.
Unfortunately, POPFile can grow a bit heavy on memory and CPU load if you have trained on lots of mail.
Pros
- POPFile filters mail in extremely flexible and versatile a manner
- Accurate classification and spam filtering using Bayesian statistics
- POPFile works seamlessly as POP and NNTP proxy and can be controlled via a web interface
Cons
- POPFile can grow a bit memory- and CPU-hungry
- A utility to clean and optimize POPFile data would be nice
- POPFile works best for one user only
Description
- POPFile is a general purpose automatic email classification and spam filtering tool.
- As a POP proxy, POPFile works transparently between your email client and the mail server.
- You can also use POPFile with IMAP accounts, as an incoming SMTP filter or for NNTP news.
- POPFile uses Bayesian statistical analysis to classify incoming messages in user-defined categories.
- You can use existing mail to train POPFile, and it learns with every new incoming message.
- An easy to use and remotely accessible web interface is used for POPFile setup and training.
- POPFile "Magnets" make certain mail fall under a specified category no matter what.
- Ignores certain HTML code and user-defined words, uses pseudo-words to save meta information.
- Can automatically configure Outlook and Outlook Express.
- POPFile supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP/Vista/7, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, UNIX.
