ReputationBox: A system to analyse importance of emails and reputation of email senders

Abstract

E-mail is one of the primary mediums of electronic communication used today. The number of email accounts are expected to go over 4.3 billion accounts by the year 2016 according to the latest email statistic reports. Users receive a bulk of emails on a daily basis and consequently they tend to overlook their inboxes and miss important emails from important people. This email management issue imposes an adverse effect on the productivity of email communication. Although many email clients today are equipped with tools to filter emails based on keywords, email addresses; most of these filters are static and are not updated automatically. The productivity of email communication will drastically improve if emails can be automatically evaluated for their goodness, so that users can promptly identify important and interesting emails before reading them and proceed with suitable actions on a timely manner.