Re: spam-use-BBDB and spam-use-BBDB-exclusive

Re: spam-use-BBDB and spam-use-BBDB-exclusive

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003, oub@mat.ucm.es wrote:

> With  the setting
> 
>  (setq spam-use-BBDB t)
> (setq spam-use-BBDB-exclusive  t)
> 
> then all the ham, based on BBDB, goes to the MAILBOX and SPAM to the
> SPAM imap folder.  So far so good.
> 
> I got curious, and used
> (setq spam-use-BBDB t)
> (setq spam-use-BBDB-exclusive  nil)
> 
> Then all my mail goes to the MAILBOX folder, 
> 
> BUT with 
> (setq spam-use-BBDB nil)
> (setq spam-use-BBDB-exclusive  nil)
> again all my mail goes into the MAILBOX folder, so I don't see the
> difference. Can somebody enlighten me, please.

Here's what's happening:

spam-use-BBDB and spam-use-BBDB-exclusive (case 1)

- only mail from people in the BBDB is not spam

spam-use-BBDB (case 2)

- mail from people in the BBDB is ham, all other is unclassified

nothing (case 3)

- no classification is done

spam-use-BBDB-exclusive is on top of spam-use-BBDB, it does not do
anything by itself.  Also, keep in mind "unclassified" is a third
category apart from "ham" and "spam."

HTH

Ted