[quote user="drossall"]

I've used Spamhalter for a bit with Pegasus Mail, but never with my Mercury/32 system. I can't find a description of what it actually does.[/quote]It just adds a header to spam mails that you can set up a filter (in Mercury or the client) to perform what action you want, typically moving to a SPAM user for review/deletion.[quote]I believe that it probably sends the passes to the intended recipient and the fails to a special mail account that I create. Then my mail users can forward wrong passes to a second account (to train the database).[/quote]I have 3 accounts setup, CRAP for Spamhalter hits to be

filtered into via a global filter rule, SPAM for sending missed mails

to as corrections & NOSPAM for sending False Positives to as

corrections.[quote] Fails can be forwarded back to the intended user (if I can tell which user that was, because not all mail has the recipient in the header as opposed to the envelope).[/quote]That can be an issue if you get a lot of newsletters etc. I generally use the smtp log & timestamp info to pin down the offending ones[quote]

As I don't have a large collection of spam to hand to train the system, I'd also like to copy my words4.db3 database from Pegasus Mail and use it with Mercury.[/quote]Never tried but should be possible, AFAIK they are the same[quote]

Can I find documentation to help with all this, and can I do the forwarding in the way I have suggested?[/quote]The doc is installed with spamhalter or at ararat.cz (from memory) also quite a few posts on the forum.

I've used Spamhalter for a bit with Pegasus Mail, but never with my Mercury/32 system. I can't find a description of what it actually does. In other words, in Pegasus Mail, Spamhalter sorts mail on arrival; that which passes the test goes to my default folder and the failures go to my nominated probable spam folder.

I can't quite figure out what happens with Mercury. I believe that it probably sends the passes to the intended recipient and the fails to a special mail account that I create. Then my mail users can forward wrong passes to a second account (to train the database). Fails can be forwarded back to the intended user (if I can tell which user that was, because not all mail has the recipient in the header as opposed to the envelope).

I don't really need Spamhalter on both programs. However, some of the family are away from home and I am using Mercury to collect from several ISPs, and then forward to Webmail systems for them. What I would like to do is to spam-screen their incoming mail and forward the passes. I don't really need to screen the mail for internal accounts because I'm doing that in Pegasus Mail, but I could always turn off the Pegasus Spamhalter, I suppose.

As I don't have a large collection of spam to hand to train the system, I'd also like to copy my words4.db3 database from Pegasus Mail and use it with Mercury.

Can I find documentation to help with all this, and can I do the forwarding in the way I have suggested?

Thanks in advance.

SpamHalter will only tag the message by adding a header. It's then up to you to create a rule to handle the tagged messages (move them to a spam account, usually).

It's possible to import databases from other SpamHalter installations. A PDF manual is included in the install.

Yes, you can use Mercury to forward messages for certain users accounts. Under Configuration/Manage local users there is a forwarding button you can press to set the destination(s). To use this feature you need to check "Allow file based forwarding..." in Configuration/Mercury Core Module/Advanced.

 /Rolf 

I've used Spamhalter for a bit with Pegasus Mail, but never with my

Mercury/32 system. I can't find a description of what it actually does.

In other words, in Pegasus Mail, Spamhalter sorts mail on arrival; that

which passes the test goes to my default folder and the failures go to

my nominated probable spam folder.

Spamhalter in Mercury/32 tags the message with headers and you can work with the headers and filters to move the spam off to a spam user.  Here's the headers for a spam message.  I use a filter on the "X-SPAMWALL: SPAM detected!" to move the mail to the user "SPAMSCAN".  I run as spam scan every once in awhile to see if there are any false positives.

X-SPAMWALL: Passed through antiSPAM test by SpamHalter 4.4.0 on novell-tstephenson.com (418)
X-SPAMWALL: probability - 100.0%
X-SPAMWALL: SPAM detected!