From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17889 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Is there a simple way to set up spam filtering? Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 20:04:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87ziwm1qvk.fsf@mithlond.arda> References: <87wprr9kfj.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2315861536598694407==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451844295 11385 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2016 18:04:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: Sivaram Neelakantan Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 03 19:04:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFn1J-0005IM-4T for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:04:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42447 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFn1I-0003w5-KW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:04:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59441) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFn1F-0003vn-Pg for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:04:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFn1C-0002tS-Ju for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:04:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mta-out1.inet.fi ([62.71.2.231]:37168 helo=johanna1.inet.fi) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFn1C-0002tM-6v for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:04:38 -0500 RazorGate-KAS: Status: not_detected RazorGate-KAS: Rate: 0 RazorGate-KAS: Envelope from: RazorGate-KAS: Version: 5.5.3 RazorGate-KAS: LuaCore: 80 2014-11-10_18-01-23 260f8afb9361da3c7edfd3a8e3a4ca908191ad29 RazorGate-KAS: Lua profiles 69136 [Nov 12 2014] RazorGate-KAS: Method: none Original-Received: from mithlond.arda (84.251.143.106) by johanna1.inet.fi (9.0.002.03-2-gbe5d057) id 567CC14800BF45AF; Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:04:36 +0200 Original-Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aFn1A-0002r2-08; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 20:04:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87wprr9kfj.fsf@gmail.com> (Sivaram Neelakantan's message of "Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:14:16 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 62.71.2.231 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17889 Archived-At: --===============2315861536598694407== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. =2D-=20 /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. // // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6 13D7 8557 719D 69D3 2453 9450 /// --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWiWKzAAoJEHGdadMkU5RQ9xYQAJ2yhiyfhg9H6RzC0bh23cQh L1RPNDWbkxdBW9uu64NwKJeQoSmsIpaH7O3zd8lCTjcLWoUl/S+jGlFm+5Ndgrxu /X3jvpd22CSOymaA+PHqKYKJwJTM7nBK/A3AXOiuYkhtw8BOCnsY8q9SlsQ1kfmW MeGOXLipwz0ckgG1+OEft/FnKnWWP1RX4NAd/CzfBOH4E6Rd/SY1pjpX5szzs/Ki 335Yw+uiuGi5P+TtAA4POxKmtO/digsGbEqmGm97pAr0eK8f8dvlYr6hk+WFzP2+ sphit0ak1lCdDB+zQT3yJ+EDMhB91gRS9YruW7Bz4tnK1cj690ryOa8nkB1ynRDN r+NkaDiLPXSN9p+LZxDtHBiMWKHCIUDujJR4WKp0UkaCVJYEA8BY0qa/WdhRdgAu Sfldggey7FTxz+Z89k/ebzZUQw4CSdcGcyMgpYJeioicKIN34WDhAA32ux3/jGgL aeLaXK+fpYtWqbNyuJGV2YKPqIYO0/RYKZ4dy4kiqdSwUpEfb3pnMZgenXVE+tTn NrcPg4eS6L8fjL77zq9AfwzLYVpVsGM9kfNbDb1Mg5mOszVz2EqxwC8yT0HhqrUo wwJ6qnD2+u+vEG7Xz9NA0H3E+xiYnwR0cDWTRW4RMHkdbSeoUqckN8RH3JCS9pQe Q8MbxDXn/e/kMvaN+2SH =s3Rb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- --===============2315861536598694407== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline