PopFile occasional report
Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 @ 12:12 pm
Filed Under Computing, Joel, POPfile
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On the whole, this is excellent performance, with some minor (and predictable) blind spots due to peculiarities that are as much mine as the program's. Except for the lack of a good loader for Apple systems, I can heartily recommend the program; the installation issues appear to be unique to the Mac platform, and shouldn't trouble Windows or Linux users. Prospective users shouldn't expect perfection, and some effort is required to train PopFile about your mail system. But it's automatic, reliable, and quite impressive.
Living with POPFile
Posted on Saturday, July 3, 2004 @ 2:24 pm
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security, Stories
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POPFile on PowerBook
Posted on Friday, March 26, 2004 @ 12:21 pm
Filed Under Dabbler, POPfile
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I resisted installing POPfile for several weeks--partly because I wanted to be more familiar with the Mac environment before installing something so far out of the ordinary, and partly because I wanted to give mail.app's junk filter a test. By January's end, it was pretty clear that the Junk Mail filter doesn't work as well as I'd like, and I missed POPfile's more general mail sorting capabilities. As I've mentioned before, I sort incoming mail into a couple dozen categories. Teaching POPfile to recognize those categories lets me get by with two dozen rules, rather than a couple hundred. Much better.
A Dabbler’s Powerbook: finding my way
Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2003 @ 11:40 am
Filed Under Computing, Macintosh, POPfile
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When I wasn't shopping this weekend, I was trying to move past the "what a neat toy" phase with my new laptop. OS X is enough like XP to be familiar, and enough different to be both annoying and fascinating. That's been covered elsewhere; I'll likely leave it alone....
PopFile Revisited: another thousand messages received; a new version installed
Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 @ 6:18 pm
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security
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All in all, that's a rather impressive performance. The increasing spam count is also rather impressive; after all, I added this tool to my kit because the junk seemed to be getting out of hand.
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