Re: How do you make spam automatically move to spam group on exit?

[Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at>]

Today, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>> BTW, why do unread messages not count? 
> 
> I know it seems counter-intuitive, but unread messages are neither ham
> nor spam.  They are just mail.  Spam groups are the only place where
> unread messages get processed automatically (given the spam mark).

Mm-hm, I see.

> I like that solution.  Maybe there should be a group parameter for the
> spam-spam-marks and spam-ham-marks.

That's what my hack (titled a solution) is trying to emulate. (-;

> Unfortunately, spam groups *always* mark unread articles as
> spam. That's the way they work.  You should use the
> ham-process-destination parameter to move out ham, once you've marked
> it as ham, and you should not use the unread mark to be a ham mark.
> Use the gnus-read-mark (which already is a ham mark by default, and
> will also positively affect the adaptive score).  That way you just
> read the message if it's ham, quit the group, and the message will be
> moved automatically to the ham-process-destination.
> 
> spam-ham-move-routine will be invoked after all the other
> spam/ham processors to move the ham out of a spam group to the
> spam-process-destination.

Could spam-ham-move-routine mark the messages as unread after moving
them? I do really would like to read the message in the "right" group,
and not in my spambox or my "false positive" box.

Thanks for the explanation,
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