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*** POPFile 1.1.2 (Someday, 2011) *** Welcome to POPFile v1.1.2 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 upgrade introduces some new features and fixes some bugs. The minimal Perl used by the Windows version has been upgraded and as a result Windows 9x, Windows Millennium and Windows NT are no longer officially supported. WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE v1.1.2 1. New features Magnets with whole e-mail address (e.g. [email protected]) now matches only the exact same address. The domain magnets (example.com, @example.com and .example.com) are also supported. (ticket #76) The search/bucket filter part of the History tab can be hilighted when they are used. You can enable this option by editing new option in the Advanced tab. Its name is 'html_search_filter_highlight'. (ticket #149) 2. Windows version improvements Windows version now installs SSL support by default. (ticket #153) 3. Mac OS X version improvements ( no improvements yet ) 4. Other improvements ( no improvements yet ) 5. Bug fixes Fixed a bug that POPFile ignored part of message body if the mesage is encoded in Quited-Printable and a soft line break (=) exists at the end of its body. (ticket #130) Fixed a bug that POPFile wrongly treated some continuation of numbers as IP addresses. (ticket #127) Fixed a bug the utility scripts remove some entries of the configuration file (popfile.cfg). (ticket #135) Avoid some Perl warnings. 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 ** This part should be rewritten. ** 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. TWO VERSIONS RELEASED FOR MAC OS X There are two versions of installer. One is for Snow Leopard, and another is for the former versions of Mac OS X. The name of Snow Leopard installer will have '-sl' suffix. 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::SQLite (or 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 KNOWN ISSUES POPFile now supports IPv4 only. (IPv6 is not supported yet.) CROSS PLATFORM VERSION KNOWN ISSUES 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; v1.40 is the most recent release of IO::Socket::SSL that works correctly. WINDOWS KNOWN ISSUES 1. 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 returns an error message. v1.0.0, v1.0.1, v1.1.0 and v1.1.1 RELEASE NOTES If you are upgrading from pre-v1.0.0 please read the v1.0.0, v1.0.1, v1.1.0 and v1.1.1 release notes for much more information: http://getpopfile.org/docs/ReleaseNotes:1.0.0 http://getpopfile.org/docs/ReleaseNotes:1.0.1 http://getpopfile.org/docs/ReleaseNotes:1.1.0 http://getpopfile.org/docs/ReleaseNotes:1.1.1 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://getpopfile.org/docs/donate 10TH ANNIVERSARY This year is the tenth anniversary of POPFile, since its first version had been built as AutoFile. We hope we'll release long-awaited POPFile version 2 later this year. THANKS Big thanks to all who've contributed to POPFile. The POPFile Core Team (Brian, Joseph, Manni and Naoki)
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