How to Install PopFile
and Configure
Courier and PopFile to Work Together
1.
Download PopFile HERE.
2. Install Popfile. Run setup.exe and follow the instructions in there. You can launch
POPFile from the Start Menu (Start->
Programs -> POPFile -> Run
POPFile in Background), or reboot and it will start automatically. You
want Popfile to load on startup, and you want it to display an Icon
in the Task Bar.
3. If you use a firewall, POPFile needs to be given permissions to access the rest of the Internet.
Remember that, since POPFile is programmed in the Perl programming language,
you'll need to give permissions to perl.exe, popfileXX.exe, or your Perl parser on other operating systems.
In ZoneAlarm, you can simply answer 'Yes' to each question and check the
Always allow... box.
POPFile does not need to have access to the Internet as a Server unless you
want other people off your machine to share your copy of POPFile.
4. Now, in Courier, you need to configure your mail accounts
to download your email THRU PopFile.
A. Click on Accounts to display
the email accounts you have set up.
B.
Click on the first account you want to have PopFile filter. Then
Right Click on this account.
C.
In the resulting drop down menu, Left Click on Properties,
and click on the Mail Server Tab.
D.
Please make a note of the Incoming mail server entry, and
the User Name entry.
E. Change
the Incoming mail server server name to 127.0.0.1 - Then change
the User ID to the
combination
of the original Incoming mail server server name and the original
User Name, with
a
colon seperating the two.
So,
if the original Incoming mail server name was mail.myisp.com and
your username was
yourname,
your new username would be mail.myisp.com:yourname
F.
Click OK, A pop-up window will appear, saying, "The user
ID or the incoming server name
for
this account has been modified. Be sure to change your password
for this account if
necessary."
You will not have to change your password and do not
change the outgoing
mail
server name. Click OK.
G.
With Courier, you need to set up only two "Buckets"
or classes of messages in PopFile. They
could
be named "Spam" and "Other". Fortunately,
these are the defaults.
H.
Courier's JunkYard filter can now be configured to sort the
spam messages to the junkyard.
You
will have to check the JunkYard foder for a week or two and reclassify
any misdirected
mail
(that shouldn't be classified as spam). You will also have
to reclassify some "good" email
as
spam. PopFile will quickly learn from it's mistakes, and do
better in the future.
Here are the Courier JunkYard
rules that I use.
Selected as JunkYard filter
Display Filter Rule dialog when
adding: Yes
Filter Rule 1: *** Base JunkYard Filter Rule ***
Case: Off
Pattern
within object: Off
Objects:
From
Action:
Move
to folder: 'JunkYard'
Retrieve
from mail server
Delete
from mail server
Mark
as read
Delete
attachment(s)
Filter Rule 2:
Mode: Incoming
Case:
Off
Pattern
1: [Sender's
Address]
Objects: [Address
Book]
RegExp: Off
Action:
Retrieve
from mail server
Delete
from mail server
Assign
color marker: 'Personal'
Filter Rule 3:
Mode: Incoming
Case:
Off
Pattern
1: X-Text-Classification:
spam
Objects: Message
header
RegExp: Off
Action:
[Using
base rule actions]
The above filter will allow PopFile
to classify messages from people in your address book as spam. But
it will mark those messages (which will go to your JunkYard folder)
with a color marker, so they will be easy to spot, and correct (reclassify).
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