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Filtering e-mail through
buckets E-MAIL clients like Outlook Express are not very adept at filtering mail and sorting incoming messages. This fortnight we feature a freeware that is a versatile yet easy to use mail classification tool. POPFile This is an automatic mail
classification tool. Once properly set up and trained, it will work in
the background of the computer, scanning mail as it arrives and filing
it however you wish. You can give it a simple job, like separating out
junk e-mail or a complicated one — like filing mail into a dozen
folders. Think of it as a personal assistant for your inbox. POPFile is
an extremely versatile program. You can tell it to just try and tell
spam from non-spam e-mail, or to separate work, family and junk mail, or
to automatically filter between a dozen projects that you get e-mail
about. It works through buckets. A bucket is just what it sounds like
— it’s one of any number of folders that your e-mail can be
classified into. You can have one for junk mail and one for regular
mail, or one for your personal email, one for work, and one for spam. It’s
up to you. To set up buckets, let’s assume that you want three
buckets: work, personal and spam. A little way down the ‘buckets’
page, there’s a ‘Maintenance’ tab, with a box labelled ‘Create
bucket with name:’. Create each bucket in turn - remember, tailor them
to whatever you want - ‘spam’ and ‘real’, or ‘work’, ‘home’
and ‘spam’ - or one for each of your projects. POPFile works as a
proxy server. Your e-mail program talks to POPFile, which talks to your
e-mail server on its behalf. Instead of the email program getting |
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