Re: What's wrong with my spam.el settings now?

[bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström)]

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005, bkhl@elektrubadur.se wrote:
>
>> After upgrading to No Gnus (CVS of 20050719) my spam group is
>> behaving differently. Spam is split to nnml:spam properly, and if I
>> enter that group and leave, the new spam messages will still have it
>> spam mark, and when I leave again, it will be processed again.
>
> first of all, sorry for the very late response to you and all the
> other people with spam.el questions (especially Reiner Steib).  I was
> unable to read ding or contribute to Gnus until now.

No problem. This isn't the first time I'm asking questions about spam.el
in here, so I know you always get around to writing a good response. :-)

> I see from your configuration that spam-mark-only-unseen-as-spam is
> set.  You should only get messages marked as spam once, when you enter
> the group and they are unseen.  After that, they will be unread but
> not unseen, so they shouldn't be marked as spam again.  To confirm,
> when you enter the second time, is there a dot (.) to the left of the
> spam-marked article in the summary line?  If yes, Gnus is not saving
> the marks of the articles, that's why you see them marked as spam
> again.

Yes. Here's a typical line:

$. [   2: <som999.@yahoo.com> ] ¢ÒÂÊè§à¤Ã×èͧàÊÕ§µÔ´Ã¶Â¹µì

> If no, set gnus-verbose to 10 and send me the output in *Messages*
> when you enter and exit the group twice.  Let me know if you need more
> help.

Here it is. To make the output more manageable, I opened the group twice
with M-1 RET. What do you make of this?

Retrieving newsgroup: nnml:spam...
Fetching headers for nnml:spam...done
Scoring...done
Sorting articles...done
Generating summary...done
Registry: Registering article 11220 with group nnml:spam
Marking unseen articles as spam
No more unread articles
Exiting summary buffer and applying spam rules
1 messages were saved the trouble of unregistering and then registering
Registering 1 specific articles as spam using backend spam-use-move
Marking spam article 11220 expirable before move
Moving article 11220 to group nnml:spam
Moving to nnml:spam: (11220)...
Wrote /home/bkhl/Mail/spam/11221
Registry: article <E1EHl5t-0004Ae-8C@lucien.dreaming> going from nnml:spam to nnml:spam
1 spam messages were registered by backend spam-use-move.
Expiring articles...
Registry: article <E1EHl5t-0004Ae-8C@lucien.dreaming> going from nnml:spam to nil
Expiring articles...done
No more unread newsgroups
Retrieving newsgroup: nnml:spam...
Fetching headers for nnml:spam...done
Scoring...done
Sorting articles...done
Generating summary...done
Registry: Registering article 11221 with group nnml:spam
Marking unseen articles as spam
No more unread articles
Exiting summary buffer and applying spam rules
1 messages were saved the trouble of unregistering and then registering
Registering 1 specific articles as spam using backend spam-use-move
Marking spam article 11221 expirable before move
Moving article 11221 to group nnml:spam
Moving to nnml:spam: (11221)...
Wrote /home/bkhl/Mail/spam/11222
Registry: article <E1EHl5t-0004Ae-8C@lucien.dreaming> going from nnml:spam to nnml:spam
1 spam messages were registered by backend spam-use-move.
Expiring articles...
Registry: article <E1EHl5t-0004Ae-8C@lucien.dreaming> going from nnml:spam to nil
Expiring articles...done