Re: spam.el/spam-stat checks in non-mail groups

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, dmaze@mit.edu wrote:

> I have spam.el happily set up to use spam-stat for all of my
> incoming mail.  This works great, but I have groups that aren't mail
> groups.  In particular, I have a couple of groups that are read-only
> archives of mailing lists[1], so these also get a fair bit of spam.
> Is there a way to run the spam.el checks on messages in non-news
> groups, and automatically give spam messages '$' marks if they need
> it?

Well these are two different things.

You can make a newsgroup a spam group, so unread or unseen messages
will get the spam-mark.  Just make sure spam-process-destination is
nil because you can't move messages of course.

You can't currently do spam checks on unseen messages in a newsgroup.

It should be possible though, by running spam-split on every unseen
message at summary entry and checking if the output is equal to
spam-split-group (remember that the ifile backend, for instance, will
output a valid group name for non-spam so you can't just check for a
string).  It's pretty simple to do this.  Maybe in such groups the
spam-process-destination should be automatically ignored but all other
spam functionality should be available.  

I don't think there's a way to automatically find out if a group is
not a mail group, is there?

What do you think?

Ted