Re: CRM114 Mailfilter and spam.el

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004, asjo@koldfront.dk wrote:

> So, I've begun to take a stab at switcing from spam-stat.el to
> CRM114 Mailfilter and spam.el.

Great!  Just so you know, I plan to add a better way to add backends
to spam.el; something like (spam-add-statistical-backend) for
instance.  It's not going to be ready for a while, but it's been on
my mind.

> Now I just need to figure out how to configure spam.el to call
> mailfilter.crm --learnspam/--learnnonspam at the *appropriate*
> moments only.

Yes, this is very important and I've been trying to get the
gnus-registry to cooperate with spam.el on this.

>  * Email comes in, and is split with spam-split. Spam goes into
>    "nnml:spam", ham goes through my usual, other splitrules (bbdb
>    and stuff).

OK.

>  * If a spam is misclassified as ham, I would like to mark that
>    message in some way, so that it is moved to nnml:spam and
>    mailfilter.crm is called with --learnspam on it.

Set the spam-mark on the message.  When you exit the group, the spam
message will be moved to the group named by spam-process-destination
(multiples are OK).  Also, the exit spam processor will be invoked on
the spam message - so set your exit spam processor to crm114.

>  * If a ham is misclassified as spam, and therefore is split into
>    nnml:spam, I would like to move it to the correct group and have
>    mailfilter.crm called on it with --learnnonspam.

Set a ham-mark (usually the tick mark) on the message.  The ham
message, when you quit the group, will be moved to the
ham-process-destination (which can be multiple groups) and processed
with the ham exit processor.

If you set spam-mark-ham-unread-before-move-from-spam-group, the ham
will also be marked unread before it's moved out of the spam group.

>  * I would like spam.el *never* to mark *any* message as expirable.

This is hardcoded right now in
spam-mark-spam-as-expired-and-move-routine:

	  (gnus-summary-mark-article article gnus-expirable-mark)

but it could be changed.  Why would you NOT want to expire spam?

Ted