<p>SpamHalter needs good database contents to work properly, and it needs to be trained with real messages from your environment. I would suggest that you start over and restore the default settings (which in most cases will work fine). Download the sample database from SpamHalter homepage (http://www.ararat.cz/download/words4.zip) and import it using SpamHalter Tools. Then you need to add spam messages and good messages from your own mailboxes. Take all you can get (yes, really all) and follow the instructions in the manual:</p><blockquote><i>You must have prepared two directories with a lot of emails saved as text files. One directory for spam messages, the other for nospam messages. Each text file is one RAW message for database. To create these text files you can use the save message feature from Pegasus Mail. Then you must run SpamHalterTools.exe. In the window you can specify your directories with messages, and then add the contents of these directories to the database by hitting the corresponding button.</i></blockquote><p>When that's done keep sending corrections to the Spam and Nospam mailboxes. Check the log to verify that the updates really work.</p><p>/Rolf </p>

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; ">Hi everybody,</span></p><p>I am new to this forum but using Marcury/32 on a Windows 2000-system for quite some time now (3-4 years or so). I just updated to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; ">Mercury version 4.61, and whilst updating I wanted to check out the tools mentioned in the installation-package called SpamWall, ClamWall and Graywall. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; ">ClamWall seems to work perfect, i did not test Graywall but I have serious problems getting SpamWall to set the total probability of spam to more than 0,00000xxx percent.</span></p><p>The system is set up to collect eMails via pop3 from several (free) servers (IMAP is not supported by these servers). I disabled the mercury content-control-filters.</p><p>I sent eMails to the mentioned eMail-adresses with the following subject and message-text:</p><p>Subject: viagra</p><p>Body: viagra</p><p> </p><p>I got the follwing Headers (debug-mode enabled):</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Clamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Passed through antiviral test by ClamWall 1.3.0.95 on xxxx.de (1026)</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Passed through antiSPAM test by SpamHalter 4.4.0 on xxxx.de (126)</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>probability - 0.0%</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Debug - fr*partofsenderadress 0.0043103448276</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Debug - fr*partofsenderadress 0.0238095238095</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Debug - fr*partofsenderadress 0.0238095238095</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Debug - viagra 0.7708333333333</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Debug - su*viagra 0.3846153846154</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Debug - ... 0.0000054138599</p><p> So the overall probability is only almost 0,000%. I set the tokens to 1, to 20 (default) to 40, i set the level of non-spam to 1 and 5 (2 ist default) etc. I always get the same results.</p><p> </p><p>This is a part of the spamhalter-log:</p><p>D 20080623 152518.390 MG00001B Mercury version >= 4.1</p><p>D 20080623 152518.390 MG00001B jobfile: D:\MERCURY\QUEUE\MG00001B.QDF</p><p>D 20080623 152518.390 MG00001B spamdir: D:\EMAIL\spam</p><p>D 20080623 152518.390 MG00001B nospamdir: D:\EMAIL\nospam</p><p>D 20080623 152518.390 MG00001B origin by MercuryD</p><p>  20080623 152518.390 MG00001B from: xxxx@xxxxxxx.de</p><p>  20080623 152518.390 MG00001B  to: xxxxxx</p><p>D 20080623 152518.390 MG00001B > Internet sender</p><p>D 20080623 152518.390 MG00001B > Need to test</p><p>D 20080623 152518.406 MG00001B before parse</p><p>D 20080623 152518.406 MG00001B before lookup</p><p>  20080623 152518.406 MG00001B Tokens: 5</p><p>L 20080623 152518.406 MG00001B Is on BL...</p><p>N 20080623 152518.421 MG00001B noSPAM 0.0000</p><p>_ 20080623 152518.515 MG00001B Done. (128)</p><p> </p><p>If i set the probability-percentage in Spamhalter to 0,00% i get the following debug-info (only a sniplet, the rest of it is the same as above)</p><p> </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>probability - 0.0%</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>SPAM detected!</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 168.0px; text-indent: -168.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><b>X-Spamwall: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Debug - fr*partofsenderadress 0.0043103448276 </p><p>  </p><p> I trained the spam and nospam-emails with ca. 50 eMails each (I know that i should train it with at least 100, but i sent the same message as above to the "spam"-adress with no results.</p><p>Does anybody here have any idea what I am doing wrong? II browsed the forum here and also the wiki (http://email.arcm.com/wiki/index.php/Spamwall%20FAQ) where the last post is about the exact same problem, and this exact problem is (still, since 2006) unsolved. </p><p> Thanks in advance for any hint for resolving this problem,</p><p>lx </p><p> </p><p> </p>