Here is something that I wrote up to automate the spamseeder process...pay attention to the assumptions (change if necessary) and values that are not in your configuration and adjust accordingly. Personally I schedule this to run every hour. just watch out for wrapping in your mail client.. I have added a "*" where lines are supposed to begin. Remove the "*"s and un-wrap this into a text editor for this to work
Hope this helps Eric S spamseeder.bat ---------------- *REM THIS PROGRAM WILL RUN IMAIL'S ANTI-SPAM SEEDER *REM Assumptions: Missed spam sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *REM False hits sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *REM IMail root path = D:\Imail *REM To make it work for you replace text between <<>> with correct data for your config [EMAIL PROTECTED] OFF *D: *CD\IMAIL *REM *REM PROCESSING SPAM THAT WAS MISSED *:CHECKSPAMMAIL *IF EXIST d:\imail\users\spam\main.mbx GOTO PROCESSSPAM *IF EXIST d:\imail\users\falsespam\main.mbx GOTO PROCESSFALSE *GOTO REPORTS *:PROCESSSPAM *ANTISPAMSEEDER -spam -h<<YOUR OFFICIAL HOST NAME>> -md:\imail\users\spam\main.mbx > D:\IMAIL\ADSPAM.TXT *DEL d:\imail\users\spam\main.* *GOTO CHECKSPAMMAIL *:PROCESSFALSE *REM PROCESSING FALSE SPAM HITS *ANTISPAMSEEDER -good -h<<YOUR OFFICIAL HOST NAME>> -md:\imail\users\falsespam\main.mbx > D:\IMAIL\FALSESPAM.TXT *DEL d:\imail\users\falsespam\main.* *GOTO CHECKSPAMMAIL *REM SEND REPORTS *:REPORTS *IF EXIST D:\IMAIL\ADSPAM.TXT GOTO SENDSPAM *IF EXIST D:\IMAIL\FALSESPAM.TXT GOTO SENDFALSE *GOTO END *REM *REM Send email notification of process being run *REM *:SENDSPAM *IMAIL1 -f ADSPAM.TXT -u <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> -h <<YOUR OFFICIAL HOST NAME>> -t <<address of report recipient>> -s "Missed Spam Seed Processing" *DEL D:\IMAIL\ADSPAM.TXT *GOTO REPORTS *:SENDFALSE *IMAIL1 -f FALASESPAM.TXT -u <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> -h <<YOUR OFFICIAL HOST NAME>> -t <<address of report recipient>> -s "False Spam Seed Processing" *DEL D:\IMAIL\FALSESPAM.TXT *GOTO REPORTS *:END *exit ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 5:09 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] AntiSpam Statistical Updates > > >Thanks for the reply. I think I didn't explain myself very well. I guess the > >question is how do I effectively make the system learn? Will it do it > >automatically (how, what's the intelligence like), or will I need to provide > >good and spam emails for it to work on? > > For it to work as designed, each user needs to continually submit as much > of their spam and legitimate E-mail as possible, and run it through the > training program. > > Some people have tried to automate this, but it is impossible to do so (to > do so automatically requires knowing if the E-mail is spam or legitimate; > if you can figure that out automatically, you don't need the Bayesian > filtering). > > >However I'm keen to use the imail analysis to it's full potential. I know > >you can give it a mailbox to learn from, but I was wondering if I could > >output a list of spam and good from outlook in to a text file and then call > >it folder.mbx for the antispamseeder.exe tool to work on. > > That is what you should do, but unfortunately I can't say how it would be > done (I've never really used IMail v8's anti-spam). > > The problem is that if you don't do this for all users, you will find that > the statistics do not work properly for some users. For example, for an > average user, the word "mortgage" in an E-mail may indicate a 99% chance of > spam. However, for someone who works at a bank or someone who is about to > buy a house or someone who only recently started getting spam, it may be > well under 50%. If one of those people who differs from the norm doesn't > train the engine, their legitimate E-mails will be more likely to be marked > as spam. > > That's why we never incorporated Bayesian filtering in Declude > JunkMail. We experimented with it years ago (well before any anti-spam > program incorporated it!), but found that the benefits did not outweigh the > drawbacks (the constant training by all users, and the problem with > spammers adding random words to their E-mails). > > >Having search the list, some people swear by ASSP. I guess there seems no > >point in having some detection if you can not update it easily. > > That all depends on what angle of attack you use in detecting spam -- for > example, Declude JunkMail doesn't require any training, downloading > definitions, etc. Instead, it uses techniques that we have developed since > 1997 to detect patterns in spam without having to look for key words. > > -Scott > --- > Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers > since 2000. > Declude Virus: Ultra reliable virus detection and the leader in mailserver > vulnerability detection. > Find out what you've been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
