Electronic mail is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, email is so convenient: You can send email at any time from almost any computer, and email is great for staying connected to colleagues, friends, and family members, especially if you’re separated by time zones or great distances. Moreover, email costs nothing and is easily shared with groups of any size. On the other hand, email can be overwhelming. Today, it’s not unusual to receive hundreds of email messages a day. Sure, reading and replying to all of that correspondence has to be done, but filtering and filing all of that email (not to mention fighting spam) can be downright daunting and time-consuming.
Electronic mail is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, email is so convenient: You can send email at any time from almost any computer, and email is great for staying connected to colleagues, friends, and family members, especially if you’re separated by time zones or great distances. Moreover, email costs nothing and is easily shared with groups of any size. On the other hand, email can be overwhelming. Today, it’s not unusual to receive hundreds of email messages a day. Sure, reading and replying to all of that correspondence has to be done, but filtering and filing all of that email (not to mention fighting spam) can be downright daunting and time-consuming.
To cope with tidal waves of email, users have turned to a variety of tools and techniques. For example, almost all commercial email applications offer programmable filters to automatically sort and file incoming (and outgoing) email. While filters can be effective to block out certain kinds of mail, say, from a specific user or domain name, filters are only as smart as you make them. Creating new filters and maintaining existing filters often just adds to the work. Worse, it’s almost impossible to take filters from one email application to the next. And spam blockers can be just as maddening: One user’s spam is another user’s treasure.
What’s needed is a personal, flexible, and ideally, adaptive email filtering system. And that’s exactly what POPFile is. POPFile, one…
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