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====== Using POPFile on Windows Platforms ====== | ====== Using POPFile on Windows Platforms ====== | ||
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===== System Requirements ===== | ===== System Requirements ===== | ||
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You'll need several things to get started with POPFile on Windows. | You'll need several things to get started with POPFile on Windows. | ||
- | * The [[http:// | + | * The [[/download|latest POPFile release]]. |
* An e-mail account that uses the POP3 protocol (most accounts do, although you can't use POPFile with web-based services like Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail without extra software. See [[:HowTos | Configuring Proxies & Firewalls]]). | * An e-mail account that uses the POP3 protocol (most accounts do, although you can't use POPFile with web-based services like Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail without extra software. See [[:HowTos | Configuring Proxies & Firewalls]]). | ||
- | * Approximately 6.6MB free disk space (or 12.6MB if Japanese support is installed) is required for the default installation created by the Windows installer. | ||
- | * POPFile itself occupies about 3.6MB (including some Windows-specific files). | + | |
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* POPFile is written in Perl so the installer installs a minimal version of Perl which occupies approximately 3MB. | * POPFile is written in Perl so the installer installs a minimal version of Perl which occupies approximately 3MB. | ||
- | * If ' | + | * If ' |
- | * If the optional XMLRPC.pm module is installed, an additional 3MB of disk space is required (most of this is used by the extra Perl components required by the module). | + | * If the optional XMLRPC.pm module is installed, an additional |
* If the optional SSL Support is installed to allow POPFile to use SSL when connecting to a mail server, an additional 2.5MB of disk space is required for the extra Perl components and SSL libraries. | * If the optional SSL Support is installed to allow POPFile to use SSL when connecting to a mail server, an additional 2.5MB of disk space is required for the extra Perl components and SSL libraries. | ||
- | * For a complete installation with all of the optional modules (including SSL Support) selected, about 12.2MB (or 18.2MB if Japanese support is installed) is required. | + | * For a complete installation with all of the optional modules (including SSL Support) selected, about 10.9MB (or between 14.3MB and 56.3MB |
* The word lists (called the corpus) used to classify your email will take some additional space depending on how much mail you use to train POPFile and how many buckets you create. POPFile keeps a temporary copy of recent mail (the Message History) for a few days to make it easy to correct any classification errors so some extra space is required for these recent messages. For some users only a few extra MB will be sufficient for the corpus and Message History, for others an additional 100 MB may be required. | * The word lists (called the corpus) used to classify your email will take some additional space depending on how much mail you use to train POPFile and how many buckets you create. POPFile keeps a temporary copy of recent mail (the Message History) for a few days to make it easy to correct any classification errors so some extra space is required for these recent messages. For some users only a few extra MB will be sufficient for the corpus and Message History, for others an additional 100 MB may be required. | ||
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===== Installation ===== | ===== Installation ===== | ||
- | - Download the Windows installer from the [[http:// | + | - Download the Windows installer from the [[/download| POPFile Download Page]]. |
- | - Run // | + | * **Note:** The installer for POPFile 1.1.1 (or later) no longer supports very old versions of Windows (see [[oldwindows]] for further details) |
- | - You can launch POPFile from the **Start Menu** (**Start** --> **Programs** --> **POPFile** --> **RunPOPFile**), | + | - Run // |
+ | - You can launch POPFile from the **Start Menu** (**Start** --> **Programs** --> **POPFile** --> **RunPOPFile**), | ||
- Configure your email client. See [[:HowTos | Configuring Specific Mail Clients]]. | - Configure your email client. See [[:HowTos | Configuring Specific Mail Clients]]. | ||
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+ | Note that on Windows systems you can use **either** space **or** tab characters to create the gap between **127.0.0.1** and **popfile** (do __**not**__ use a mixture of spaces and tabs). | ||
The default locations of your //hosts// file on Windows are: | The default locations of your //hosts// file on Windows are: | ||
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- | Windows | + | Windows |
- | Windows | + | Windows |
- | Win 98/ME | + | Windows 2000 = |
+ | Windows | ||
</ | </ | ||
Of course, you can also create a bookmark for POPFile and some mail clients allow access to the POPFile UI within the mail client. See [[: | Of course, you can also create a bookmark for POPFile and some mail clients allow access to the POPFile UI within the mail client. See [[: | ||
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