You can use the antispamseeder.exe utility to merge two antispam-table.txt files. This is useful when you have modified your antispam- table.txt file, but you want to download the latest updated file from the Ipswitch Web site. It is also useful for combining the antispam-table.txt files of several domains. Using the procedure below, you can retain your customizations while gaining new statistical information from more recent spam.
To merge two antispam-table.txt files:
antispam-table.txt with the name of the antispam table that you want to merge with that of the specified host:antispamseeder.exe –t<antispam-table.txt> - h<hostname>
Note: You can rename the second file, (for example, antispam-table2.txt). This is only necessary if you want both files to reside in the same directory. The antispam-table.txt files should be placed in the same directory as antispamseeder.exe. If they are in separate directories, you must enter the full path name for the files.
Example:
C:\Program Files\Ipswitch\Collaboration Suite\IMail\Host2\antispam-table.txt.
First, antispamseeder reads the specified antispam-table.txt file, and compares it to the antispam-table.txt file for the specified host. Then, words that are not listed in the host's file are added to it. Since the spam and non-spam word counts for each antispam-table.txt file are different, the antispamseeder utility will recalculate the counts for each word that is added to preserve accurate statistics for the word. Therefore, new words are added with the existing word counts, and existing words are recalculated to balance the two files word counts.