Performance Analysis, Comparative Survey of Various Classification Techniques in Spam Mail Filtering

One of the most common methods of communication involves the use of e-mail for personal messages or for business purposes. One of the major concerns of using the e-mails is the problem of e-mail spam. The worst part of the spam e-mails is that, these are invading the users without their consent and bombarding of these spam mails fills up the whole e-mail space of the user along with that, the issue of the wasting the network capacity and time consumption in checking and deleting the spam mails makes it even more concerning issue. With the increasing demand of removing the e-mail spams the area has become magnetic to the researchers. This paper intends to present the performance comparison analysis of various pre-existing classification technique. This paper discusses about spam mails in section (I), In section (II) various feature selection methods are discussed , In section (III) classification techniques concept in spam filtering has been elaborated, In section (IV) existing algorithms for classification are discussed and are compared. In section (V) concludes the paper giving brief summary of the work.