POPFile Documentation Project releasenotes
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/
2026-07-24T09:46:38+00:00POPFile Documentation Project
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/
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http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.9?rev=1213145610&do=diff
v0.9 (9 Oct 2002)
New version is v0.9
I've changed the numbering scheme from beta x.y to simply x.y and dropped the number back to 0.y since we are on the first releases and no longer beta.
The version number is embedded in the source and printed out by popfile when it runs.text/html2008-06-10T22:03:58+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.12 (20 Oct 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.12?rev=1213135438&do=diff
0.12 (20 Oct 2002)
Folks,
A lot has progressed on POPFile with the assistance of some of you and the accuracy for text extraction and mail classification has gone way up. Specifically...
* POPFile has an updated home page at <http://popfile.sourceforge.net>
* There's a new release version of POPFile available attext/html2008-06-11T00:54:46+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)v0.14 (27 Oct 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.14?rev=1213145686&do=diff
v0.14 (27 Oct 2002)
Now with web-based GUI
Get v0.14 and when it is running point your <http://127.0.0.1:8080>.text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.17.3 (November 5, 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.17.3?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.17.3 (November 5, 2002)
Folks,
It's been five days, it must be time for a POPFile release... Here's what's in v0.17.3.
1. UI pages are no longer cached by browser so you don't have to force refreshes
(particularly of the History page). (Thanks to djjames for the fix suggestion)
2. New Security tab in the UI that gathers together all the security features in one
place. (Thanks to sschinke for beating the security bandwagon)
3. New Stealth Mode/Server Mode for …text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.17.4 (November 11, 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.17.4?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.17.4 (November 11, 2002)
Folks,
Here's what's in v0.17.4...
1. The coloring of email now output information about the probability of this
mail being in each bucket. (Requested by bana-sea- and stmatth)
2. Save the bucket statistics each time they change so that the UI is always
correct even if POPFile were to crash (which I have never seen :-) (jswu
made the bug report)
3. You can now click on a bucket name to look at the contents of the bucket and
…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.17.5 (November 18, 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.17.5?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.17.5 (November 18, 2002)
Folks,
Here's what's in v0.17.5...
1. POPFile now runs cleanly with Perl's highest level of error checking (use strict
and use warnings). If you see warnings on the console then I want to know about
them; they are mostly harmless but I still want them all gone.
2. Added bucket magnets to provide a simple mechanism of associating specific email
addresses with buckets. When a magnet is defined for an address then an email
coming from …text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.17.6 (November 19, 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.17.6?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.17.6 (November 19, 2002)
It's available now. Sorry for two releases in two days but a problem with packaging crept in and Windows version worked but was missing black.gif and the cross platform version had mismatched versions of some files.
John.text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.17.7 (December 3, 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.17.7?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.17.7 (December 3, 2002)
Folks,
Here's what's in v0.17.7...
1. POPFile checks once per day with a special web page running on UseTheSource
(www.usethesource.com) whether a newer version is available and tells the
user via a GIF displayed in the UI that the user can click on to jump to the
SourceForge download page to get the latest POPFile. (Request by me and
someone who's handle I have forgotten)
2. The Windows version installs a shortcut to the Shutdown …text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.17.8 (December 5, 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.17.8?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.17.8 (December 5, 2002)
Folks,
Here's what's in v0.17.8... (small release to fix a problem some people were having
with v0.17.7 and certain email clients/server, see #1)
1. Fixed a bug in the UIDL command that was causing some mail clients to hang.
(Reported by farmerchris)
2. The Filter list on the History page has <Show All> instead of a blank entry
to make it clearer to the user. (Suggested by dyoungmcwicom)
3. Added keeping track of the number of mails …text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.17.9 (December 12, 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.17.9?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.17.9 (December 12, 2002)
Folks,
--- Here's what's in v0.17.9...
1. Brand new installer for the Windows version using the new NSIS SuperPIMP 2
system that gives it a new look and feel (more modern) and also let me have
custom screens for configuration options.
2. The installer now asked for the default ports for POP3 service and the GUI
and asks whether POPFile should be placed in the Windows Startup group for
automatic startup. (Partially requested by tdscott).
3…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.18.0 (February 6, 2003)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.18.0?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.18.0 (February 6, 2003)
INTRODUCTION
It has been close to 2 months since the last POPFile release and boy have I
and others been busy. POPFile v0.18.0 is a *major* change from v0.17.9 and
you'd do well to read the section entitled ESSENTIAL READING before you
install it. This version is backwards compatible with previous versions (even
autofixing some errors that the old versions created) but there are some
differences.
This is also the first release in which two additional deve…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.18.1 (Febuary 27, 2003)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.18.1?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.18.1 (Febuary 27, 2003)
INTRODUCTION
v0.18.0 was a major update and inevitably some bugs crept in that we didn't
detect prior to shipping. Happily they have been fixed, and even more
happily the regression test suite now has tests for many of them so that
they will never reoccur. v0.18.1 fixes these bugs (see THE GORY DETAILS
below for the gory details) and also has two significant changes: the
caching code associated with the History page has been totally rewritten
by me so …text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.18.2 and 0.19.0 (June 11, 2003)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.18.2_and_0.19.0?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.18.2 and 0.19.0 (June 11, 2003)
INTRODUCTION
For the first time in POPFile history we are releasing two versions at the
same time. Please take a moment to decide which version is most appropriate
for you.
v0.18.2 is a minor bug fix update to the last v0.18.1 made in February and
contains no new features. It is intended for conservative users who are
happy with POPFile as it stands and would just like bug fixes and nothing
else.
v0.19.0 is a major update to v0.18.1 and includ…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.18.3 (July 15, 2003)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.18.3?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.18.3 (July 15, 2003)
INTRODUCTION
v0.18.3 is a bug-fix release. v0.18.2 has a bug that caused POPFile to
prematurely terminate messages over 100k.
DOWNLOADING
You can obtain the latest releases of POPFile by visiting
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137
UPGRADING
Just install POPFile on top of the currently installed version.
FAQ
zonk3r has spent a great deal of time on a POPFile FAQ. Please check it out
as it covers many question…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.19.1 (July 15, 2003)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.19.1?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.19.1 (July 15, 2003)
INTRODUCTION
Today's release consists of two maintenance releases to v0.18.2 and
v0.19.0.
A special thank you goes out to Sam Schinke who continues to contribute
time and energy to POPFile.
I recommend v0.19.0 because of the many improvements, but v0.18.2 is the
STABLE release for those who want rock solid reliability and want others to
do the bug hunting on the new v0.19.x line :-)
ESSENTIAL READING IF YOU ARE UPGRADING TO v0.19.1 from v0.18.x
1.…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.20.0 (October 17, 2003)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.20.0?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.20.0 (October 17, 2003)
INTRODUCTION
v0.20.0 is a major update to POPFile with the focus being on performance.
In addition POPFile makes another leap forward in support for non-English
languages with many new UI translations (including our first right to
left language) and full support for parsing of Japanese and Korean.
v0.20.0 is intended to end-of-life v0.18.x and v0.19.x. All future
development work will be occurring around the v0.20.0 line of code and no
bugs will be fixe…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.20.1 (November 4, 2003)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.20.1?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.20.1 (November 4, 2003)
INTRODUCTION
v0.20.1 is a minor update on v0.20.0 to address the performance problems that some
people were seeing with the introduction of the BerkeleyDB for storage of the corpus.
v0.20.1 sets the BerkeleyDB cache size (i.e. the amount of the corpus that is kept
in memory) to 64KB and it can be controlled through the bayes_db_cache_size
parameter if needed. The default should work for everyone, you can set this to a
higher value to keep more of the d…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.21.0 (March 9, 2004)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.21.0?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.21.0 (March 9, 2004)
Welcome to POPFile v0.21.0
This version consists of a major update to v0.20.1 with many improvements
and bug fixes:
1. Multi-user phase 1
POPFile now recognizes two environment variables (POPFILE_ROOT and
POPFILE_USER) which can be used to customize the location of POPFile
and the location of its per-user data. POPFile *no longer* has to be
run with the current working directory set to where popfile.pl is
installed.
POPFILE_ROOT: this is the full pa…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.21.1 (March 19, 2004)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.21.1?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.21.1 (March 19, 2004)
Changes in v0.21.1
This release was prompted by a number of users who saw very
long corpus conversion times when upgrading to v0.21.0. This
has been fixed along with a small number of others things:
1. Updated Arabic translation
2. Updated installer to handle corpus upgrade problems better
3. Logger always uses system specific line endings
4. A side effect of fixing the upgrade slowness is that
reclassification will be faster.
5. Made FAQ, ID and (ste…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.21.2 (August 3, 2004)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.21.2?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.21.2 (August 3, 2004)
v0.21.2 RELEASE
This is a release containing a fix for a security flaw found
in v0.21.1 and is identical to that release apart from the
fix.
More details of the flaw can be found here:
http://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5248725&forum_id=12356
John.text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.22.0 (September 8, 2004)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.22.0?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.22.0 (September 8, 2004)
Welcome to POPFile v0.22.0
This version consists of a major update to v0.21.0 with many improvements
and bug fixes:
1. History in database
We've finally done away with the old method of keeping the message history
in a single directory full of files (which was frankly flaky and hard to
maintain). Messages are now placed in subdirectories with no more than 256
per directory. History is now moved it into the database along with all
the other informatio…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.22.1 (October 4, 2004)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.22.1?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.22.1 (October 4, 2004)
Welcome to POPFile v0.22.1
This version consists of a minor bug fix update to v0.22.0. It is a
recommended upgrade for people using v0.22.0 because of problems #1
and #12 below.
WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE v0.22.0
1. Added a missing </a> that appear in the magnet page navigator
2. Problem with redefined separator value in POP3 proxy
3. Updated installer
4. Fix in the API for handle_message to ensure that messages appear in the
history correctly.
5. Rein…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.22.2 (December 17, 2004)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.22.2?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.22.2 (December 17, 2004)
Welcome to POPFile v0.22.2
This version consists of a minor bug fix update to v0.22.1. A
collection of bugs had been discovered and fixed and it seemed prudent
to do a .2 release to get these fixes in the hands of people.
WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE v0.22.1
1. POPFile comes with a new "packing list" which will check
automatically that the correct Perl modules are installed
for POPFile to work correctly. This is important to cross
platform us…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.22.3 (October 28, 2005)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.22.3?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.22.3 (October 28, 2005)
Welcome to POPFile v0.22.3
This is a minor bug fix release prompted by POPFile developer Brian
Smith who pointed out that we hadn't done a POPFile release for a
while, that there was a much newer version of Perl available and that
there were lots of changes in the installer that would help people.
The new version of Perl enables Windows POPFile to use the latest SSL
code (for connections to secure mail servers) and fixes the "3935 byte
problem" that made P…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.22.4 (Febuary 22, 2006)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.22.4?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.22.4 (Febuary 22, 2006)
Welcome to POPFile v0.22.4
This version is a bug fix release and contains an important security
related bug fix. It is a highly recommended upgrade because of the
problem described in #1 below.
WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE v0.22.3
1. A bug in the handling of the charset in an email could be exploited
to cause POPFile to crash when downloading messages.
2. Japanese users were unable to use the insert.pl script. This has
been corrected so the Nihongo langu…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)0.22.5 (June 18, 2007)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:0.22.5?rev=1202500160&do=diff
0.22.5 (June 18, 2007)
Welcome to POPFile v0.22.5
This version is a bug fix and minor feature release that's been over a
year in the making (mostly due to me being preoccupied by other
things).
NOMINATING POPFILE FOR AN AWARD
SourceForge has announced their 'Community Choice Awards' for 2007 and
is looking for nominations. If you feel that POPFile deserves such an
honour please visit the following link and nominate POPFile in the
'Best Project for Communications' category. P…text/html2008-02-08T19:49:20+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)1.0.0 (December 21, 2007)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:1.0.0?rev=1202500160&do=diff
1.0.0 (December 21, 2007)
Welcome to POPFile v1.0.0
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 version is a bug fix and minor feature release. It's also the
first release to have the version number 1. This is because we've
finally decided to stop pretending that POPFile is 'beta' software :-)
WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE v0.22.5
1. Changes to the …text/html2008-05-26T18:41:42+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)1.0.1 (May 26, 2008)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:1.0.1?rev=1211827302&do=diff
1.0.1 (May 26, 2008)
Welcome to POPFile v1.0.1
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 version is a bug fix and minor feature release. It's also the first
release to have been built by Brian Smith.
WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE v1.0.0
1. Bug fixes
When POPFile starts up it no longer complains about a missing IMAP file if
IMAP has not been installe…text/html2008-11-30T17:00:26+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)1.1.0 (November 30, 2008)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:1.1.0?rev=1228064426&do=diff
1.1.0 (November 30, 2008)
Welcome to POPFile v1.1.0
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 is an important release for several reasons: it is the first to use a
SQLite 3.x database, it is the first to offer a Mac OS X installer in addition
to the usual cross-platform and Windows installer versions, and it is the first
version released since…text/html2009-09-25T14:11:44+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)1.1.1 (September 26, 2009)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:1.1.1?rev=1253887904&do=diff
1.1.1 (September 26, 2009)
*** POPFile 1.1.1 (September 26, 2009) ***
Welcome to POPFile v1.1.1
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 officiall…text/html2011-08-21T19:22:22+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)1.1.2 (August 21, 2011)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:1.1.2?rev=1313954542&do=diff
1.1.2 (August 21, 2011)
Welcome to POPFile v1.1.2 (August 21, 2011)
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 maintenance release provides some minor new features and fixes some bugs.
Installers are provided for Windows XP or later and Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.5.x,
10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion).
The minimal Perl used by the Windows versio…text/html2011-09-06T16:09:14+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)1.1.3 (September 6, 2011)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:1.1.3?rev=1315325354&do=diff
1.1.3 (September 6, 2011)
Welcome to POPFile v1.1.3 (September 6, 2011)
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 maintenance release fixes some bugs.
Installers are provided for Windows XP or later and Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.5.x,
10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion).
The minimal Perl used by the Windows version has been upgraded and as a resu…text/html2008-06-10T21:59:08+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)Beta 1.7 (2 Oct 2002)
http://www.getpopfile.com/docs/releasenotes:b1.7?rev=1213135148&do=diff
Beta 1.7 (2 Oct 2002)
Folks,
The first beta release of the all open source, all Perl POPFile is now ready to go from the POPFile home page at <http://popfile.sourceforge.net>.
It's been tested out on Windows and with this release we've gone from a download measured in megabytes to 15k!