Re: spam spltting my sys emails

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

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> combined with

RR> ,----
RR> | spam-split-group is a variable defined in `spam.el'.
RR> | Its value is "Gnus-Spam"
RR> | 
RR> | Documentation:
RR> | Group name where incoming spam should be put by `spam-split'.
RR> `----

RR> I have a select method for nnml which processes var/spool/mail mbox and
RR> usually used to put them in mail.misc group in the nnml-directory
RR> (~/Mail).

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> My nnml group looks like this after using command line "mail" to send an
RR> email from root to myself:-

RR> ,----
RR> | Z      1: Gnus-Spam <-- spam splitting created this
RR> |        0: mail.misc
RR> |        1: sys-mail     ;<--- I created this group manually moving a message
RR> `----

RR> Where Gnus-Spam has been newly created by the spam-splitting I assume.

Yes, the messages will be spooled to the group and it's created if
necessary.

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.

Ted