Deleting Words from Antispam-table.txt

You can use antispamseeder.exe to delete words, from a host's antispam-table.txt file, that occur infrequently. You may want to delete these words to save space and improve content filtering processing efficiency. This command works by eliminating all words that have occurred less than the number of times specified. For more information, see Understanding the antispam-table.txt File to determine whether words should be deleted from the Antispam-table.txt file.

To Delete Words from Antispam-table.txt File:

  1. Open the antispam-table.txt file, located in the host's directory.
  2. From the command prompt, enter the following command:   

    antispamseeder.exe -x –c<total word count> - h<hostname>

    Note: The number entered for the total word count must be positive.

  3. The words that have occurred fewer times than the total word count entered in the command are removed from the antispam-table.txt file.

Example

If you want to remove all words from the antispam-table.txt file that have occurred fewer than five times in all e-mail messages, enter the following command, where "Host1" is the name of the host:

antispamseeder.exe –x –c5 -hHost1

After running the above command, and reopening the antispam-table.txt file, notice that all words that had previously occurred less than five times are gone.

Parameter

Function

- c<word count>

Represents the spam count or non-spam count of the word. This can also represent the total number of times the word has occurred in all e-mail messages.

- h<hostname>

Represents the name of the host.

-x

Deletes a word from the antispam- table.txt file.

Related Topics

Antispamseeder Parameters

Understanding the Antispam-table.txt File