Re: Getting started with spam filtering

[Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>]

Jorge Godoy <godoy@ieee.org> writes:

> Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org> writes:
>
>> Just for the record -- I use spam-stat.el without spam.el at the
>> moment, and it works just fine.  So if anybody has questions about how
>> to get started, just ask and I will do my best, much as Ted is doing
>> for spam.el.  :)
>
> It would be interesting if you could post a step-by-step on how to get
> it running. I can publish it on a website for you (or you can add it
> to Emacs Wiki :-))

You can start by looking in the Gnus manual node "Filtering Spam Using
Statistics (spam-stat.el)".  The node "Creating a spam-stat
dictionary" explains how to create your dictionary.  The node
"Splitting mail using spam-stat" explains how change your mail
splitting setup.

The short version is this:

You need two nnml directories, one with spam, one with non-spam mails
before you start!

1. Call `spam-stat-process-spam-directory' on `~/Mail/mail/spam'.

2. Call `spam-stat-process-non-spam-directory' on `~/Mail/mail/misc'.

3. Call `spam-stat-save' to save the dictionary.

4. Add this to your `~/.gnus' file:

     (require 'spam-stat)
     (spam-stat-load)

5. Change your mail splitting following the one of these examples:

     (setq nnmail-split-fancy
           `(| (: spam-stat-split-fancy)
     	  "mail.misc"))

     (setq nnmail-split-fancy
           `(| ("Content-Type" "text/html" "mail.spam.filtered")
     	  (: spam-stat-split-fancy)
               ("Subject" "\\bspam-stat\\b" "mail.emacs")
     	  "mail.misc"))

I am grateful for any holes poking in the manual section on
spam-stat.el -- only then can I improve it.  I just noticed, for
example, that the manual section that tells you to call spam-stat-save
is not formatted correctly...

Alex.