About Intelligent Mail Filtering
Last week it came to my mind like a storm. What if I apply the Bayesian Filtering rules to automatically sort all of my email to proper folders. It should consider email body and headers to learn how I do sort email and offer me the proper folder next time. I have talked about it with some of my coleagues, …, well, they were not so enthusiastic about the idea as I was.
This morning I was browsing through Ubuntu Bounties only to find that:
- There is a bounty filled for Thunderbird to do exactly what I wanted (see correspoinding Mozilla bug).
- The algorithm was already implemented by ifile,
- and more recently by POPFile.
Anyone saying anything about reinventing-the-wheel? I wish this functionality became the default part of Thunderbird soon.
June 5, 2006 EN