Re: Getting started with spam filtering

[Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com>]

Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org> writes:

> I am grateful for any holes poking in the manual section
> on spam-stat.el -- only then can I improve it.

Here's something that _maybe_ should be changed/added. I
only use nnimap, but I use the agent as a cache. Therefore
it is possible for me (I guess?) to use spam-stat.el, but
doing the training on my cached articles instead.

I.e. you can use automated dictionary creation even if you
have another backend than nnml.

Also, splitting is possible using nnimap-split-fancy as well
and not only nnmail-split-fancy, right?

Btw, I really liked the "Here is how you would create your
dictionary" part of the documentation. Perhaps something
could be added to help beginners a bit more? Something along
the lines of:

1. Copy this text to the *scratch* buffer
2. edit the strings to reflect your settings
3. go to the end of each statement and press C-x C-e to
   evaluate the function

Niklas