Sivaram Neelakantan [2016-01-03 13:14:16+05:30] wrote:

> So, I look at the docs and it's got a good deal of info on setting up
> something to filter spam.  Me, I just want a spam folder, mark a few
> mails as spam in mail.misc and over time gnus figures out the spam
> mails and moves it automagically to spam folder.  Possible?

Gnus can't know what's spam (not very well at least) but a good external
system can. I use and like Bogofilter which must be trained with good
messages and spam messages. It works very well after a training period.
Bogofilter is a separate program but it's easy to install in GNU/Linux
systems. I don't know about other operating systems.

Gnus's spam system can be configured to use Bogofilter but I agree that
as a whole it's quite complicated. I used it many years - and it worked
nicely - but eventually wrote a simpler Bogofilter-based system that is
enough for my own needs:

https://github.com/tlikonen/gnus-bogofilter

> Seriously, the docs chapter on spam is hard.  Too hard to even set it
> up.  And that's not even coming to the fancy splitting part.

Fancy splitting (nnmail-split-fancy) is required because it's the way to
hook custom code to incoming mail delivery.

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