Re: sorting summary on spamassassin score

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, jdc@uwo.ca wrote:

> Wes and Adam, thanks for the suggestions.

I'm not sure who to thank, but I added the code you have below to
spam.el for general use.  Right now only SpamAssassin is supported,
but it's intended for any backend that can score on a header.  If I
can get a consensus on who came up with ideas and implementation, I'll
put that in the ChangeLog.

The main difference is that in my version, any spam headers, not just
X-Spam-Status, are supported.

So, how does it work?  You just use spam-initialize as usual.

The only three things users will need to do:

1)

(defalias 'gnus-user-format-function-S 'spam-user-format-function-S)

if they want to use %uS in the summary line format.  I'm considering
making this a built-in, e.g. %$ but I'm not sure yet.

2) set spam-use-spamassassin, spam-use-spamassassin-headers, or
   spam-use-regex-headers BEFORE they run spam-initialize.
   Conveniently, this can now be done like so:

(spam-initialize 'spam-use-spamassassin ...)

which will set spam-use-spamassassin to t BEFORE any intialization is
done.  Very useful, and you don't need (setq spam-use-spamassassin t)
before spam-initialize anymore.

3) in the groups of interest, set the group article sorting to use
   spam-article-sort-by-spam-status, that is, set
   gnus-article-sort-functions to
   '(spam-article-sort-by-spam-status).  You may need
   gnus-show-threads set to nil.