When IMail Server scans an e-mail, it breaks the e-mail down into the individual words. Each character in each word is then checked to make sure it is a valid character. By default, IMail Server does not recognize non-alphabetic characters (except hyphens) or numbers. When comparing words to the antispam-table.txt file, non-alphabetic characters and numbers in a word are treated as the "-" character. So if the word "2Sexy" is found in an e-mail, it is treated as "–sexy" when it is compared to the antispam- table.txt file.
If you want IMail Server to identify such words as spam or non-spam, you must enter them into the antispam-table.txt file using antispamseeder.exe.
To identify words with non-alphabetic characters or numbers as spam or non-spam:
antispamseeder.exe –w<word> –c<word count> [- spam|-good] -h<hostname>
Note: The word count must be positive.
Examples:
Parameter |
Function |
-c<word count> |
Represents the spam count or non-spam count of a 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 a host. |
- w<word> |
Represents a word. This is used in conjunction with -c to set the spam or non- spam count of a word within the antispam-table.txt file. |
-spam |
Identifies the word entered as spam. |
-good |
Identifies the word entered as non-spam. |