Email Mining: A Survey
E-mail is one of the most widely used ways of written communication over the internet, and its traffic has increased exponentially with the advent of World Wide Web. The increase in email traffic comes also with an increase in the use of emails for illegitimate purpose. Phishing, Spamming, email bombing, threatening, cyber bullying, racial vilification, terrorist activities, child pornography and sexual harassment are common examples of e-mail abuses. So, there is a need for e-mail mining. Various methods and approaches were used by the scientists for classification of email messages in above categories. In this paper we are presenting various techniques and approaches used by researchers for email mining and subsequent classification.
Keywords: email, email mining, spam, header body, MIME, SMTP, POP
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Pranjal S. Bogawar
Mrs. Pranjal S. Bogawar has completed her B.E. (Computer technology) in 2000 from Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University and M.E.(Computer science and Engineering) in 2009 from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University of India. She is assistant professor in the department of Information Technology of Priyadarshini College of Engineering, R.T. M. Nagpur University at Maharashtra, India. She published 3 national, 3 international and one journal paper. Her research interests are Database Management System, Data mining and Email mining. She is Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education.
Kishor K. Bhoyar
Prof. Kishor Bhoyar has completed his B.E. (Computer Science & Engineering) and M.E.(Computer Tech.) Degrees from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University and Swami Ramanad Teertha Marathwada University of India respectively in the years 1990 and 2001 respectively. He has achieved his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Vishweswarayya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India in the year 2010. He is a professional member of ACM, Associate member of Computer Society of India and Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education. His areas of interest include Image Processing, Soft Computing and Data Mining.
Pranjal S. Bogawar
Mrs. Pranjal S. Bogawar has completed her B.E. (Computer technology) in 2000 from Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University and M.E.(Computer science and Engineering) in 2009 from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University of India. She is assistant professor in the department of Information Technology of Priyadarshini College of Engineering, R.T. M. Nagpur University at Maharashtra, India. She published 3 national, 3 international and one journal paper. Her research interests are Database Management System, Data mining and Email mining. She is Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education.
Kishor K. Bhoyar
Prof. Kishor Bhoyar has completed his B.E. (Computer Science & Engineering) and M.E.(Computer Tech.) Degrees from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University and Swami Ramanad Teertha Marathwada University of India respectively in the years 1990 and 2001 respectively. He has achieved his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Vishweswarayya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India in the year 2010. He is a professional member of ACM, Associate member of Computer Society of India and Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education. His areas of interest include Image Processing, Soft Computing and Data Mining.
