Re: spam.el reporting and moving ham out of spam groups.

["Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, daniel@rimspace.net wrote:

> I use the 'train on errors' method for teaching SpamAssassin, which
> means that I don't want to be passing all the detected spam or ham
> through my reporting system.
> 
> I also use the `spam-split' method to filter mail detected by
> SpamAssassin headers into a spam group.
> 
> 
> What I would like to achieve is that anything marked as unread is
> reported as ham (by email :) and then respooled on exit from the spam
> group.
> 
> Everything else will be killed or marked read, then total-expired.
> I would rather *not* give everything the spam mark on entry either,
> since I use score files to really obvious stuff as read.

> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem possible to set spam.el to process
> messages as ham without setting the group classification as 'spam'.

Can you try spam-process-ham-in-nonham-groups?

> Setting the group as 'spam' means that everything gets the spam mark on
> entry...
> 
> Is there a way around this, or am I asking the impossible?

Nothing is impossible, except skiing through a revolving door :)

I just added a new variable,
spam-mark-new-messages-in-spam-group-as-spam which is t by default.
If you set it to nil, you'll get the effect you want.

Ted