Using Bayesian statistics, POPFile can sort incoming email automatically. Find out how to use it to eliminate spam, how to get more productive with it and how to get the most out of POPFile in general with these tips, tricks and secrets.
POPFile has no "traditional" user interface, but it's still easy to handle. Find out how to access POPFile to create buckets, train it, see statistics, and much more.
With the help of POPFile as a personal assistant, you can have Outlook Express filter away spam and file other incoming mail automatically.
If POPFile isn't sure about a message, it does not classify a message -- and does not learn from it. Here's how to make sure both POPFile and you profit from these rare occasions.
Do you want your email in Outlook Express to be filtered through a supreme anti-spam tool? Here's how to set up Outlook Express to work with POPFile.
Profit from POPFile classifying your mail (and filtering spam) automatically. Here's how to configure your email program to work with POPFile.
One bucket for spam, one bucket for spam, one bucket for personal mail,... Here's how to create buckets for auto-organizing mail in POPFile.
Make POPFile insert into the Subject what category it thinks an email belongs to, so you can see it immediately and your email client can use POPFile's classification for further filtering.
If you want to know whether "spam" is most likely to appear in spam or in which category of messages your own name is most prevalent, here's how to look up a word in POPFile's email classification database.
If POPFile made one of its rare classification errors, here's a fast and easy way to teach POPFile about a particular message.
Don't like POPFile opening a console window when you start it on Windows? Don't like its system tray icon either? Here's how to disable them both and make POPFile run silently in the background.
POPFile can automatically label your incoming Gmail messages — learning from your example whenever you apply a label manually.
Do you want your work mail to be pink? Here's how to change the color assigned to a bucket in POPFile.
If POPFile feels slow as you try to re-classify messages, try trimming the history of messages it automatically keeps.
Make sure you'll never have to re-classify your favorite newsletters. Here's how to hard-wire them to a certain bucket in POPFile.
POPFile is always sure when it classifies a message to fall into a particular category (spam, for example). But if you require it to be very, very, very sure before classifying a message you can minimize false positives.
Here's a more conventional and particularly easy way to open the POPFile user interface under Windows.
Put your emails in buckets! Find out how to set up categories that POPFile will use to classify your incoming emails automatically.
As tempting as it may be to whitelist all your friends, you shouldn't do it in POPFile. Here's why, and why you should stay away from POPFile's "magnets" altogether.
If you use a anti-virus program that scans all mail for viruses as you download it, you can still use POPFile to filter the same mail for spam. Here's how to set up such a chain of POP proxies for total protection.
Tweak POPFile and your email account settings to enjoy the power of POPFile email classification with accounts that require SSL access, such as Gmail.