Re: spam spltting my sys emails

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:38:41 +0200 Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> wrote: 

RR> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:32:29 +0200 Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
RR> Using this set up
>> 
RR> (setq nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
RR> (setq nnimap-split-methods 'default)
RR> (setq nnmail-split-fancy (quote (: spam-split)))
RR> (setq nnmail-split-methods (quote nnmail-split-fancy))
>> 
>> Ouch.  Are you sure you want spam-split to be the only determinant of
>> where mail goes?  I would at least provide a default destination at the
>> end.

RR> I'm not sure I follow you. nnml has a default destination : nnml-directory.

I didn't know (I don't use nnml-directory).  For nnimap, at least, I
would provide a default.

RR> Now its determining that all my sys emails from cron etc are spam and
RR> refiling them to spam-split-group, Gnu-Spam. How to stop that?
>> 
>> It depends entirely on your spam.el configuration.  Some backend has
>> decided those e-mails are spam.  You need to either check *Messages* or
>> debug each of your spam backends one by one.

RR> I have one. spam-use-bogofilter.

...so check bogofilter from the command line and see if it thinks the
mail is spam.  If so, that's the problem.

In a spam group like Gnus-Spam, set the ham-exit-processor to bogofilter
(use `G c' to customize this stuff, I forget the exact syntax).  Then in
the group you can tick the non-spam articles with `!' and when you exit
the group, they'll be processed as ham (non-spam).

You can also do it manually from the command line.

RR> So how to tell the spam-split assigned to nnmail-split-fancy to ignore
RR> the nnml feed?
>> 
>> You need to customize your nnimap-split-methods to a function which
>> overrides spam-split-group and nnmail-split-fancy (the variable) and
>> calls nnmail-split-fancy (the function).  I posted an example just the
>> other day.

RR> Or I guess, simply dont set the globals and pass the spam processing
RR> values as part of the select method for the nnimap selects only (these
RR> are the only ones I want to spam split).

That would work too.

Ted