Re: Bug when using the agent and spam.el

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, niklas.morberg@axis.com wrote:
> Now I've found the time to be constructive and not only
> whine about the problems I'm having with the agent. This is
> what I do:
> 
> 1. I enter a ham group with two new messages. One is spam
>    and one is ham.
> 2. I view the ham message.
> 3. I mark the spam message as spam with `M-d' without
>    viewing it.
> 4. I exit the group.
> 
> The next time I enter the group the spam message is still
> there (marked as unread and undownloaded). This is terribly
> frustrating when it happens to tens (and possibly hundreds)
> of spam emails at a time and has made me stop using `M-d'
> and instead just move the spam messages in my ham groups out
> of the way with `B m'.

I don't use the agent, so I can't really duplicate your situation.
Are you sure your spam-process-destination is set for that group?
What does 
(gnus-parameter-spam-process-destination gnus-newsgroup-name) return
when you are in that group?

> Some more observations:
> 
> - The spam message is not cached by the agent.
> - The spam message is not on the IMAP server (verified by
>   using another IMAP client to look at the group).
> - gnus-agent-regenerate does not help.
> - Unplugging and replugging the agent does not help.
> - Restarting Gnus does help and the message is no longer
>   visible in the summary buffer.
> 
> Could it be that the method used by spam.el to move messages
> is not the standard one? Perhaps this is also the reason
> that moving messages out of the spam group automatically
> does not work (pure guessing without having looked at the
> code).

See the other thread for the spam-ham-move-routine;
spam-mark-spam-as-expired-and-move-routine is similar for spam
moving.  I just call (gnus-summary-move-article nil group) with
gnus-current-article set to the article number of interest.  My code
is probably wrong, since I had to figure things out pretty much by
myself - suggestions for fixing it or pointers to places in the Gnus
code where articles are moved properly are welcome.

Ted