Re: Gnus and SpamAssassin

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, timmcn@bitstream.net wrote:

[regarding the spam.el documentation]

> Well, for example, whether one would use spam-split with
> SpamAssassin (or another process such as Bogofilter, which has some
> documentation); also how to use a bbdb whitelist to break out e-mail
> from those senders before processing the rest (thinking this would
> speed things up by running fewer e-mails through spamc).  

All of the above can be done.  SA was just added by Hubert Chan so the
documentation is not ready yet. To use the BBDB whitelist you just set
spam-use-BBDB to t, and spam-split should automatically skip the spam
checks on messages from people in the BBDB.

> The documentation is fairly dense and seems to assume an
> acquaintence with both the mechanics of Gnus and Lisp that I don't
> have yet; fortunately this is starting to make more sense!  I'll
> look through it again and see if I can be more specific.

I'm afraid this is my fault.  It's easier to write code than to
document it.  It's hard for me to see the problems because I'm so
familiar with the code; if you have particular suggestions on the
spam.el section I would greatly appreciate them.

Thanks
Ted