Re: [Eric Knauel] spam.el and spamoracle

[Eric Knauel <knauel@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>> here is a little patch that adds support for Xavier Leroy's
>> spamoracle (see <http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html>) to
>> spam.el.  I found it quite useful when using IMAP server or other
>> servers where I can't start spamoracle via procmail.
>> 
>
> Does Eric have FSF papers on file?

No. What do I have to do to get one? The FSF website says something
about logging onto mysterious GNU machines where the forms can be
found. 

> I would also suggest the following:
>
> - use (executable-find "spamoracle") as the default value of
>   spam-spamoracle-binary, this usually does what the user wants (nil
>   if not found, etc.)

Done.

> - provide a reasonable default for spam-spamoracle-database so users
>   don't have to configure it if they don't want to

I usually don't specify a database when calling spamoracle from the
prompt, which then uses the default database "~/.spamoracle.db". This
is what happens if the user leaves spam-spamoracle-database to nil. Is
this ok? I'll have to add this to the document string, however.

> - should there be a spam/ham processor for spamoracle?

I think that would this would be a convenient way for training
spamoracle. I'll add that feature and send you the patch.

-Eric


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