Splitting with SpamAssassin and group parameters

Splitting with SpamAssassin and group parameters

[Kirk Strauser]

I'm recently installed SpamAssassin on my mailserver, and want to start
using it to split my email in Gnus.  The problem I'm running into is that it
seems as if the whole world splits their mail with `nnmail-split-fancy', but
I'm using

    (setq nnmail-split-methods        'bbdb/gnus-split-method)
    (setq bbdb/gnus-split-nomatch-function 'gnus-group-split)

and group parameters.  So far, I've gleaned that I need to add a split-spec
group parameter to a new group (`mail.spam', say) so that email with a
header line `X-Spam-Status: Yes' gets sent to that group.  However, I can't
seem to get the correct syntax for doing such a thing; my mail either
doesn't get split as expected or everything gets sent to the bogus group.

So, does anyone use group parameters enough to know how to make

    (x-spam-status "Yes" "mail.spam")

work the way I want it to?
-- 
Kirk Strauser

Re: Splitting with SpamAssassin and group parameters

[Kirk Strauser]

At 2002-08-19T22:08:45Z, Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org> writes:

> I use fancy splitting AND bbdb splitting.  Why don't you give it a try?  I
> am sure you could add gnus-group-split to the fancy splitting rules.  Here
> is some code to get you started:

Thanks for the shove in the right direction!  Here's my new splitting
algorithm:

;; ----------------------------------------
;; %%% NEW SPLIT RULES (2002-08-20)
(setq
 nnmail-split-methods        'bbdb/gnus-split-method
 bbdb/gnus-split-nomatch-function 'nnmail-split-fancy

 ;; Ideas from http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SplitMailUsingBbdb
 nnmail-split-fancy
 `(|
     ("x-spam-status" "Yes" "mail.spam")
     (: (lambda ()
	  (car (gnus-group-split))))
     "mail.misc")
)
;; ----------------------------------------

Now my mail is filter as follows:

1) Addresses matching entries in my BBDB are explicitly split into the
   group specified in `gnus.private'

2) Mails are then matched against any fancy splits I've defined

3) Next, mails are split according to the rules defined in my group
   parameters

4) Anything remaining goes to mail.misc

Thanks again, Alex!
-- 
Kirk Strauser
The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/