         fffff       lll
        fff  ff       lll
 iii    fff fff iii   lll
 iii    fff     iii   lll
      fffffff         lll   eeeeee            1     000     000
iiii    fff    iiii   lll  eee   ee          11    0   0   0   0
 iii    fff     iii   lll  eeeeeeee     v v   1    0   0   0   0
 iii    fff     iii   lll  eee          v v   1    0   0   0   0
iiiii  fffff   iiiii lllll  eeeeee       v   111 *  000  *  000

ifile web site --> "http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/ifile/" <--

If you attempt to use ifile, I would enjoy hearing from you.  Please
send me e-mail at <jrennie@ai.mit.edu>


For installation instructions, read the INSTALL file.
For information on modification history, read the ChangeLog and NOTES files.
For answers to commonly asked questions, read the FAQ file.


ifile is a mail filter client that uses machine learning to classify
e-mail into folders/mail boxes.  The algorithm that it uses is called
naive bayes.  You can find more information about its use in text
applications at http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/ (look for the 'naive
bayes' heading).  Basically, naive bayes considers each document an
unordered collection of words and classifies by matching the document
distribution with the most closely matching folder/mailbox
distribution.


Credits
-------
Primary Author - Jason Rennie <jrennie@ai.mit.edu>
Other code contributors - Diego Zamboni, Chris Brown and Andrew McCallum
Other helpful people - Dave Robinson, Colin McCormack, Alfred Werner,
                       Mikael Nilsson, Jim Grinnell and Ken Wallich
Inspirational Influence - Tom Mitchell

If you experience any problems with ifile, please fill out this form
(or something similar) and send it to jrennie@ai.mit.edu.

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What version of ifile are you using? :

What operating system do you run? :

What is your default C compiler? :

What mail client do you use? :

What version of perl is on your system? :

Did you have any problems installing ifile?  If so, please describe
them here:





Did you encounter any problems while running ifile (e.g. lost mail -
poor job of filtering)?  If so, please describe them here (copies of
/tmp/ifile.info, ifilter.mh.info and irefile.mh.info and would be
really helpful) :





Do you have any suggestions on how to improve ifile?





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