Re: Handling spam

[Andrew Cohen <acohen@ust.hk>]

>>>>> "CL" == Christian Lynbech <christian@defun.dk> writes:

    CL> Does any of you use gnus to handle spam, and if so, how do you
    CL> do it?  I have for quite some time been using the spam-stat
    CL> library that is bundled with emacs, but it is not working so
    CL> well for me.

[...]

    CL> So I am not sure what to do, either I need to teach the split
    CL> rule to look at the raw message or I need to retrain my spam
    CL> detection on formatted messages, something I can certainly do
    CL> but which perhaps is less efficient in distinguishing between
    CL> spam and non-spam. Certainly, being able to quickly process
    CL> whole directories is rather convenient.

You need to look at 'spam-stat-washing-hook:
  "Hook applied to each message before analysis."

With this you can manipulate the article before the spam analysis. A
common choice is

(require 'spam-wash)
(add-hook 'spam-stat-washing-hook 'spam-wash)

which will decode MIME encodings before doing the spam analysis.  I
don't recall if it deals with html email but you should be able to
modify the function 'spam-wash easily enough to do what you want.

Best,
Andy
-- 
Andrew Cohen