Re: spam.el and bogofilter.

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, jklymak@coas.oregonstate.edu wrote:
> I have been able to train bogofilter from within gnus.  I set a
> group to be a ham group, and tell it to process ham and spam (S x)
> with bogofilter on exit, and it apparently does so because I am able
> to change the bogosity of articles (checked via M s t).

Great.  Puzzling but great that you have it working.  Normally you
need to set the spam/ham exit processor in order to train bogofilter
or other tools.

> However, I am a little confused as to what spam-split actually does.
> Does it simply try and mark the article as spam or does it try and
> put it somewhere?  If it tries to put it somewhere, where would that
> be?

spam-split only moves the article to spam-split-group if it's spam,
marks are not set by it.

> I'm using nnimap, and have the following in my .gnus:
> 
> (require 'spam);; but really I dont' require spam!
> (setq
>   nnimap-split-rule 'nnimap-split-fancy
>   nnimap-split-inbox "INBOX"
>  nnimap-split-fancy '(|
> 		      (: spam-split)
> 		      ;; default mailbox
> 		      "mail/Inbox.spam"))
> 
> All my INBOX gets put in mail/Inbox.spam.  
> 
> I have spam-split-group set to "spam"  Should it be set to something
> else if I am using imap?

No, nnimap-split-fancy knows to interpret it in the IMAP context, and
nnmail-split-fancy will do the corresponding translation to nnml and
such.

You have to set spam-use-xyz if you want to use tool XYZ in
spam-split.  For instance, spam-use-bogofilter will detect spam in
spam-split with Bogofilter.  Have you looked at the intro to spam.el
in the manual?  If it was confusing or unclear, let me know what
parts, and how I should rephrase it if you have input.

> I have to admit an embarrassing lack of spam since last night when I
> got this working, but I do want to find out where my spam group will
> be.

Yeah, I keep a good 50 messages around for testing - the spam that
would not die, heh.

Thanks
Ted