From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8879 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Geoff Kuenning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Modifiable mbox? Date: 10 Apr 2007 01:19:26 -0700 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176203262 27463 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2007 11:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:07:42 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 10 13:06:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HbBtj-0008Qz-Rw for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HbBxc-0002Kb-Lp for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:44:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wl-243.cine.hmc.edu Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1176193169 15748 134.173.200.243 (10 Apr 2007 08:19:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:19:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79062 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8879 Archived-At: I procmail presumed spam into an mbox file, and then periodically scan it for ham. Right now, I use rmail to move the ham elsewhere and delete it from the mbox; then I convert it from Babyl back to mbox and feed it to spamassassin for Bayesian learning. The problem with that method is that rmail isn't my favorite interface, and in fact it breaks after 10,000 messages. I'd prefer to use gnus to do my filtering and processing. The problem is that I can't figure out how to make gnus descend into an mbox in a writeable fashion. gnus-group-make-doc-group is great for browsing the group, but doesn't let me delete ham after I've written it to a different file. Is it possible to get gnus to descend into an mbox without reformatting it into nnml, but still being able to delete messages? I'd rather not move thousands of messages into separate files, since then I'd just have to collect everything together again to feed it to Spamassassin. I'm also open to alternative suggestions. My requirements are that I need to save semi-spam in a procmail-friendly way, use gnus to move the few real ham messages to a different place, and easily feed the remaining stuff to spamassassin. Other than that, I'm willing to change how I do things. -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ If you can't measure it, it's not science. -- Robert A. Heinlein, "The Door Into Summer"