Re: spam move is very slow

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:14:14 +0200 joakim@verona.se wrote: 
j> I mark spam with $ while reading a group, and then press q.
j> The spam is very slowly moved to the spamlearn group I've configured.

j> Sometimes spam-move just hangs, and then I press c-g and it continues
j> for some reason. If I dont press c-g the spam move process often never terminates.

That's very strange. The actual method used to move the articles is
`spam-copy-or-move-routine' and it just relies on the Gnus internals
(mark articles, then move them). So if the normal method to move the
articles is fast, but spam.el is slow, something is not right.

j> The spam eventually winds up in the correct spamlearn group, but there
j> it is marked as E, for expired. I'm not sure why I'd want this, but the
j> documentation says it is normal.

Typically people don't want to keep spam. You can then set the policy
for what to do with expired articles, but if you think there's a need
for marking them as something else, what would it be?

j> How can I debug this slowness? I dont think its dovecot being slow,
j> because dovecot isnt usually very slow.

Process-mark articles and copy/move them to your spamlearn group.

Ted