From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52641 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Knauel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Eric Knauel] spam.el and spamoracle Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 22:08:16 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052856516 27488 80.91.224.249 (13 May 2003 20:08:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 20:08:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1185@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 13 22:08:35 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Fg40-00075W-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 22:07:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Fg5O-0003pV-00; Tue, 13 May 2003 15:09:18 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Fg5G-0003pP-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 13 May 2003 15:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 40471 invoked by alias); 13 May 2003 20:09:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 40466 invoked from network); 13 May 2003 20:09:09 -0000 Original-Received: from mx3.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (134.2.12.26) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 13 May 2003 20:09:09 -0000 Original-Received: from galibier.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (galibier [134.2.12.80]) by mx3.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E693A13E; Tue, 13 May 2003 22:08:38 +0200 (MST) Original-Received: from albert.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (localhost.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de [127.0.0.1]) by galibier.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4DK8ajN079209; Tue, 13 May 2003 22:08:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from knauel@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 08 May 2003 09:44:14 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, darwin) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52641 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52641 Ted Zlatanov writes: >> here is a little patch that adds support for Xavier Leroy's >> spamoracle (see ) 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 -- "Excuse me --- Di Du Du Duuuuh Di Dii --- Huh Weeeheeee" (Albert King)