Re: Trouble with spam.el and ifile

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 08 Jan 2003, dmaze@MIT.EDU wrote:
> By regex would be great, but I don't know which variable to set.
> (By regex is even better if spamness overrides hamness, since then
> "nnml:.*" can be ham.)  In particular,
> 
> (defun spam-group-ham-contents-p (group)
>   (if (stringp group)
>       (memq 'gnus-group-spam-classification-ham
>             (gnus-parameter-spam-contents group))
>     nil))
> 
> doesn't do any obvious testing of group against a regex;
> gnus-group-spam-contents-p at least tests if the group is a member
> of spam-junk-mailgroups.  *pause* *enlightenment* I want to set
> 
> (setq gnus-spam-newsgroup-contents
>   '(("nnml:.*"             gnus-group-spam-classification-ham)
>     ("nnml:mail.misc.spam" gnus-group-spam-classification-spam)))
> 
> since it looks like the magic in gnus-define-group-parameter picks
> the last matching regexp from the alist.  

I just use the gnus-define-group-parameter magic, it seems to do the
right thing.  But did you try setting the group spam-contents
parameter with `G c' instead of gnus-spam-newsgroup-contents?  That
should override the global setting.

> Probably (gnus)Filtering Spam Using spam.el should talk about this;
> now that I think I have some understanding, would you like me to
> write up some text?

Yes, if you could look it over for inaccuracies, especially
considering the new ifile modifications and the new behavior with
spam- and ham-moving, I would greatly appreciate it.

Ted