PopFile: Testing a spamkiller
I was recommended to check up PopFile (thanks Stu!) to help get rid of spam. Now I have installed it, which was very easy, and am ready to start the training.
For the first time in history, I actually am sitting here waiting for spam to arrive!
After 11 messages, the accuracy is 36%. Not too bad from scratch. Not surprisingly, it is able to distinguish between English and Norwegian with very few examples.
In a week or so I should be ready to duly report the progress.
Update: This morning I had around 40 spam mails and a few real ones, and all were correctly classified except one spam mail that remained unclassified. This was based only on the "training" it had received from the dozen-or-so first emails! After a total of 64 messages, it is actually good enough I can scrap my old keyword-based filters and rely on PopFile to identify spam correctly! The manual says it achives an accuracy of ~95% after a thousand emails. It is currently at 78%, but that of course includes the very first emails where it had no clue.
PopFile is very good! Stay tuned.
Update 2: After a total of 83 incoming emails, 58 of which were spam, PopFile has an accuracy of 82%. It effectively kills all my spam already. And good riddance....
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