SPAM

That dreaded word. You have email with the thought of sending important missives to and from your cadre of friends. But instead you open to find a MESS of drivel about ink cartridges, penis size, weight loss and a host of get rich quick schemes. Some are amusing, others incoherent, some disgusting but all unwanted.

If you are SICK of spam and use a POP3 mailer (like Outlook Express, Outlook, Netscape, Eudora NOT hotmail, yahoo, or AOL) then there is a FREE program out there to help you. YES FREE! It's SO free that they even give you the source code for FREE.

It's called POPFile. What it does is act as a PROXY (or middleman) between you and your mail server. Instead of YOU checking your email you ask POPFile to check it and test it if its spam. It will NOT add any steps when you check your email you'll use your mail program as you always have. Just with a few changes to the Account Settings.

POPFile works not using buckets. Which you have to train. POPFile doesn't know a message from Aunt Bertha from a HGH message. So you have to teach it the difference. It may take a couple days but it's worth it.

Once you've got it running and checking your email when it makes a mistake you simply go to a web page (that's actually running on your machine) and correct it. As time goes on POPFile will not only remember your corrections but use what it's flagged as spam to help it decide if new messages are spam. I've reached over 98% accuracy in only a few days.

So to install just go to the POPFile site and download yourself a copy. There is PLENTY of documentation on installation and configuration but if you need some help just ask.