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POPFile v1.1.0 Released
POPFile v1.1.0 has been released on our new website:
http://getpopfile.org/
You can read the release notes here:
http://getpopfile.org/docs/releasenotes:1.1.0
The POPFile Core Team
2008-11-30 17:58:03 UTC by amatubu
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POPFile v1.0.1 Released
Welcome to POPFile v1.0.1
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 version is a bug fix and minor feature release. It's also the first
release to have been built by Brian Smith.
WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE v1.0.0
1. Bug fixes
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).
2. POPFile improvements
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.
3. Installer improvements
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.
4. UI improvements
The links to the wiki have been improved.
5. Other changes
The (outdated) manual is no longer included in the download.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/
WHERE TO DOWNLOAD
http://getpopfile.org/download/
GETTING STARTED WITH POPFILE
An introduction to installing and using POPFile can be found in the
QuickStart guide:
http://getpopfile.org/docs/QuickStart
SSL SUPPORT IN WINDOWS
SSL Support is offered as one of the optional components by the installer. If
the SSL Support option is selected the installer will download the necessary
files during installation.
If SSL support is not selected when installing (or upgrading) POPFile or if
the installer was unable to download all of the SSL files then POPFile's
"Add/Remove Programs" entry can be used to add SSL support to an existing
installation.
I AM USING THE CROSS PLATFORM VERSION
POPFile requires a number of Perl modules that are available from CPAN. You
will need:
Date::Parse
HTML::Template
HTML::Tagset
DBD::SQLite2
DBI
TimeDate
You can install all the required POPFile modules by getting the
Bundle::POPFile bundle from CPAN.
Please refer to the installation instructions on the POPFile wiki:
http://getpopfile.org/docs/HowTos:CrossPlatformInstall
Japanese users may need to install some extra programs and Perl modules,
depending upon which Nihongo parser (wakachi-gaki program) they wish to use.
For more information about how to install them, see the POPFile wiki:
http://getpopfile.org/docs/JP:HowTos:CrossPlatformInstall
CROSS PLATFORM VERSION KNOWN ISSUES
The current version of SQLite (v3.x) is not compatible with POPFile. You must
use DBD:SQLite2 to access the database.
Users of SSL on non-Windows platforms should NOT use IO::Socket::SSL v0.97 or
v0.99. They are known to be incompatible with POPFile; v1.13 is the most
recent release of IO::Socket::SSL that works correctly.
WINDOWS KNOWN ISSUES
1. THE TRAYICON ON WINDOWS CAN CAUSE POPFILE TO FREEZE.
With certain setups, if you attempt to view the trayicon's tooltip or hover
your cursor over it while checking or downloading mail POPFile may freeze. The
exact cause is still unknown but it may be related to some video drivers. If
this problem affects you turn off the trayicon.
Due to this issue, we suggest users of the IMAP module disable the trayicon
since a freeze may go unnoticed more easily than when using a mail client to
make POP3 connections.
2. ON WINDOWS I WANT TO CHECK MULTIPLE EMAIL ACCOUNTS SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Because the time taken to start a new process on Windows is long under Perl
there is an optimization for Windows that is present by default: when a new
connection is made between your email program and POPFile, POPFile handles it
in the 'parent' process. This means the connect happens fast and mail starts
downloading very quickly, but it means that you can only download messages
from one server at a time (up to 6 other connections will be queued up and
dealt with in the order they arrive) and the UI is unavailable while
downloading email.
You can turn this behavior off (and get simultaneous UI/email access and as
many email connections as you like) on the Configuration panel in the UI by
making sure that "Allow concurrent POP3 connections:" is Yes, or by specifying
--set pop3_force_fork=1 on the command line.
The default behaviour (no concurrent POP3 connections) can cause email clients
to time out if several accounts are being checked (because POPFile only handles
one account at a time it can take a while to process all of the accounts).
If SSL support is being used then the default setting (no concurrent POP3
connections) _MUST_ be used otherwise POPFile crashes.
v1.0.0 RELEASE NOTES
If you are upgrading from pre-v1.0.0 please read the v1.0.0 release notes for
much more information:
http://getpopfile.org/docs/ReleaseNotes:1.0.0
DONATIONS
Thank you to everyone who has clicked the Donate! button and donated their
hard earned cash to me in support of POPFile. Thank you also to the people
who have contributed their time through patches, feature requests, bug
reports, user support and translations.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=213876
THANKS
Big thanks to all who've contributed to POPFile.
The POPFile Core Team
2008-05-26 18:25:01 UTC by xuesheng
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POPFile v1.0.0 Released
Welcome to POPFile v1.0.0
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 version is a bug fix and minor feature release. It's also the
first release to have the version number 1. This is because we've
finally decided to stop pretending that POPFile is 'beta' software :-)
WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE v0.22.5
1. 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.
Please refer to the setup instructions on the POPFile wiki:
http://getpopfile.org/wiki/experimentalmodules:imapinstructions
2. 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).
The Windows installer lets the user select the Nihongo parser to be
installed. All of the files needed for the Kakasi and internal
parsers are included in the installer. The MeCab package size is about
13 MB (i.e. too big to include in the installer) so it will be
downloaded from the Internet if the MeCab parser is selected when
installing POPFile.
Other Nihongo changes: fixed a bug that the history table in the UI
was not being shown correctly when invalid characters were used in the
From, To and Cc headers in Nihongo mode; fixed a bug in the shortening
of Subjects in the history table.
3. 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.
The installer and uninstaller have been upgraded to work better when
used on Vista, especially when run from a standard user account. Many
of these improvements also apply to Windows XP. For example the
uninstaller is now less likely to leave Start Menu shortcuts behind.
4. 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.
Add a JavaScript Check All box for selecting messages to remove from
history.
5. Other improvements
Performance improvement in analyzing e-mails. Encoded attachment file
names are now decoded. Fixed a bug that missed some e-mail addresses.
WHERE TO DOWNLOAD
http://getpopfile.org/wiki/download
GETTING STARTED WITH POPFILE
An introduction to installing and using POPFile can be found in the
QuickStart guide:
http://getpopfile.org/wiki/QuickStart
SSL SUPPORT IN WINDOWS
SSL Support is offered as one of the optional components by the
installer. If the SSL Support option is selected the installer will
download the necessary files during installation.
If SSL support is not selected when installing (or upgrading) POPFile
or if the installer was unable to download all of the SSL files then
POPFile's "Add/Remove Programs" entry can be used to add SSL support
to an existing installation.
I AM USING THE CROSS PLATFORM VERSION
POPFile requires a number of Perl modules that are available from
CPAN. You will need:
Date::Parse
HTML::Template
HTML::Tagset
DBD::SQLite2
DBI
TimeDate
You can install all the required POPFile modules by getting the
Bundle::POPFile bundle from CPAN.
Please refer to the installation instructions on the POPFile wiki:
http://getpopfile.org/wiki/HowTos:CrossPlatformInstall
Japanese users may need to install some extra programs and Perl
modules, depending upon which Nihongo parser (wakachi-gaki program)
they wish to use. For more information about how to install them, see
the POPFile wiki:
http://getpopfile.org/wiki/JP:HowTos:CrossPlatformInstall
CROSS PLATFORM VERSION KNOWN ISSUES
The current version of SQLite (v3.x) is not compatible with POPFile.
You must use DBD:SQLite2 to access the database.
Users of SSL on non-Windows platforms should NOT use IO::Socket::SSL
v0.97 or v0.99. They are known to be incompatible with POPFile; v1.07
is the most recent release of IO::Socket::SSL that works correctly.
WINDOWS KNOWN ISSUES
1. THE TRAYICON ON WINDOWS CAN CAUSE POPFILE TO FREEZE. With certain
setups, if you attempt to view the trayicon's tooltip or hover your
cursor over it while checking or downloading mail POPFile may freeze.
The exact cause is still unknown but it may be related to some video
drivers. If this problem affects you turn off the trayicon.
Due to this issue, we suggest users of the IMAP module disable the
trayicon since a freeze may go unnoticed more easily than when using
a mail client to make POP3 connections.
2. ON WINDOWS I WANT TO CHECK MULTIPLE EMAIL ACCOUNTS SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Because the time taken to start a new process on Windows is long under
Perl there is an optimization for Windows that is present by default:
when a new connection is made between your email program and POPFile,
POPFile handles it in the 'parent' process. This means the connect
happens fast and mail starts downloading very quickly, but is means
that you can only downloaded messages from one server at a time (up
to 6 other connections will be queued up and dealt with in the order
they arrive) and the UI is unavailable while downloading email.
You can turn this behavior off (and get simultaneous UI/email access
and as many email connections as you like) on the Configuration panel
in the UI and making sure that "Allow concurrent POP3 connections:" is
Yes, or by specifying --set pop3_force_fork=1 on the command line.
The default behaviour (no concurrent POP3 connections) can cause email
clients to time out if several accounts are being checked (because
POPFile only handles one account at a time it can take a while to
process all of the accounts).
If SSL support is being used then the default setting (no concurrent
POP3 connections) _MUST_ be used otherwise POPFile crashes.
v0.22.0 RELEASE NOTES
If you are upgrading from pre-v0.22.0 please read the v0.22.0 release
notes for much more information:
http://getpopfile.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes
DONATIONS
Thank you to everyone who has clicked the Donate! button and donated
their hard earned cash to me in support of POPFile. Thank you also to
the people who have contributed their time through patches, feature
requests, bug reports, user support and translations.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=213876
THANKS
Big thanks to all who've contributed to POPFile.
John.
2007-12-21 09:35:28 UTC by jgrahamc
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Last push for POPFile voting
POPFile has been nominated for a SourceForge Community Choice Award
due to the efforts of many people.
Voting closes on July 20 and there's strong competition in POPFile's
category from the likes of Pidgin (formerly GAIM) and phpBB.
If POPFile wins SourceForge will be making a donation to a charity
that I picked: Doctors without Borders.
If you feel like voting for POPFile, please vote in the Best Project
for Communications category here:
http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/vote.php
Cheers,
John.
2007-07-14 12:10:01 UTC by jgrahamc
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Please vote for POPFile!
POPFile has been nominated for a SourceForge Community Choice Award
thanks to the efforts of many users. If you love POPFile please vote for
it here:
http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/vote.php
It's in the Best Project for Communications category.
2007-07-03 04:43:48 UTC by jgrahamc
