Table of Contents
Frequently Asked Questions
General Summary
What is POPFile?
How does POPFile Work?
Cost & Licensing model
Preinstallation Questions
Email Systems
Terminology
Using POPFile
Reclassifying
History
Statistics
Features
Miscellaneous
Security
Contributing to POPFile
Beyond Filters
General Spam Protection
Frequently Asked Questions
General Summary
What is POPFile?
What is POPFile?
Was POPFile based on Paul Graham's research?
Why was POPFile written in Perl?
POPFile Articles and Reviews
Books That Mention POPFile
POPFile reviews on the web
How does POPFile Work?
How does POPFile work?
What does POPFile do to the email it receives?
What separates this project from other Naive Bayesian email classifiers?
Cost & Licensing model
How much does POPFile cost?
What license does POPFile use?
Preinstallation Questions
What are the system requirements for POPFile?
Which version of POPFile should I use?
I speak XXXXX language. Is there a translation for my language?
Email Systems
Does POPFile support APOP?
I know POPFile works with POP3, but does it work with IMAP too?
Is POPFile compatible with Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange?
Is POPFile compatible with MailWasher Pro?
Is POPFile compatible with Yahoo or MSN email?
Can I use POPFile with Yahoo or Hotmail webmail?
Does POPFile work with virus scanners and firewalls?
Is POPFile compatible with Secure Password Authentication/AUTH?
Is POPFile capable of doing SSL email connections?
Can POPFile scan email before retrieving it?
Why does POPFile only classify individual words, not phrases?
Can I use APOP and SSL together?
Clients and Servers
Does POPFile support multiple email servers?
Is POPFile designed to work on a server with multiple clients?
Where are the POPFile downloads, and how do I get started?
How can I change the port of the real mail server?
Terminology
See
Glossary of Terms
Using POPFile
Reclassifying
When will POPFile be trained?
How long will it take until POPFile will reach a decent accuracy?
How do I know when I should reclassify a message?
Can I reclassify multiple messages at once?
What's the minimum and maximum number of buckets POPfile can support?
History
POPFile classified a message to bucket X, but the probabilities say it should be bucket Y
What order are the messages sorted in?
Why is email being kept both in POPFile and in my email program?
Sometimes POPFile's UI "hangs". Is something wrong?
How often should I delete the history?
POPFile's history keeps growing and messages are never purged. What's up?
Where do you change the settings for how often email is checked?
POPFile is classifying my email, but it just sits in my inbox. Why isn't it going in my spam folder?
I just started using POPFile. Why is some of my email marked "Unclassified"?
Statistics
What are false negatives and false positives and why are they so important?
What is the significance of the colors of the words in the history view?
What do the statistics mean?
Why doesn't my wordlist count increase as my statistics increase for each successful message classification?
How do I reset the statistics and does this modify my corpus?
Is it possible to 'unbalance' your corpus?
What variables affect 'good' statistical ratings?
Features
What is the Quarantine feature?
I'm a command line junky. What are the command line options for POPFile?
How do I enable or disable POPFile from automatically starting when I boot my computer?
Why doesn't POPFile have a 'bounce' function?
POPFile Roadmap: What does the future of POPFile look like?
What is the XML-RPC interface?
Does POPFile support Whitelists? Can I import an address book into POPFile?
Miscellaneous
How can I get the POPFile UI to open in a new browser window?
What are the skins for?
How do I close down POPFile properly?
How do I duplicate a fully configured POPFile on another machine?
How does one erase all knowledge POPFile has?
How do I get Outlook to display the X-POPFile-Link header?
What are the Pseudowords built into POPFile and how do they work?
What are some other uses for POPFile?
How does POPFile evaluate new words?
Why doesn't word salad work?
Why are common headers names marked as a specific bucket?
How can I backup or restore POPFile?
Can I merge buckets?
Can I setup with NNTP server which needs no authentication?
Can I speed up training?
Can POPFile resend a message from History?
Security
What security issues might there be when running POPFile?
What is being logged in POPFILE*.LOG?
Why is POPFile causing alarms in my antivirus program?
Does POPFile contain a virus/trojan/adware?
I forgot my password for POPFile Control Center. How can I reset it?
Contributing to POPFile
How can I contribute to POPFile's development?
How can I help improve POPFile's documentation?
How can I show support for POPFile and encourage others to use it? or Can I link to POPFile? Are there some Otto Icons arround?
Beyond Filters
General Spam Protection
What can I do to prevent being spammed?
Where can I learn about spam protection?