• What is ifile?
• Download current version of ifile (latest is 0.7.4)
• Recent developments/updates
• Other mail filtering links

• The ifile FAQ
• The ifile README
• ifile NOTES

ifile is a general mail filtering system that works with a mail client to intelligently filter mail according to the way the user tends to organize mail. ifile uses the modern machine learning algorithm naive Bayes to classify mail documents.

ifile is different from other mail filtering programs in three major ways:

1. ifile does not require you to generate a set of rules in order to successfully filter mail
2. ifile uses the entire content of messages for filtering purposes
3. ifile learns as you move incorrectly filtered messages to new mailboxes

ifile is not dependent upon any specific mail system and should be adaptable to any mail system which allows an outside program to perform mail filtering. Currently, ifile has been adapted to the MH and EXMH mail systems.

• I've been unsuccessful trying to get EXMH to automatically filter mail via ifile and it causes compatibility problems, so the incorporation code in ifile.tcl has been removed. See the NOTES file for more info.
• 0.7.3 crops excessively long messages and attaches the X-filter: header so that maildrop-style messages messages aren't aversely affected.
• Read a paper (PS, HTML) about ifile.
• Read about past changes here.

• Mail Filtering FAQ
• Robots and Mail Filtering
• William Cohen - AT&T Researcher who has done work with mail filtering
• Terry Payne - grad student at University of Aberdeen who did his Masters thesis on mail filtering.
• Chris Brown's mail filtering page
• Greg Taylor's spam page
• Mehran Sahami - wrote a paper on filtering junk e-mail
• An e-mail filter agent for Lotus Notes

Have other suggestions? Send me e-mail.

	ifile copyright © 1997 Jason Daniel Rennie
accesses since 2/26/99