On Wed, 01 Apr 2015, Steven Arntson <[email protected]> writes:
> Several times in the last few months I've read through the Gnus manual > about filtering out spam, and I always end overwhelmed. But I would like > to accomplish something. I'm getting about 50 spam mails a day right now > in my POP "nnml:mail.misc". They are all pretty "obvious" spam of the > sort containing word salad under subject lines about discounted drugs > and impossible enhancements. I've downloaded Spamassassin, but haven't > been able to get my head around fancy splitting, connecting Gnus to > Spamassassin, &c. And there appear to be many other options besides > Spamassassin, which I am at a loss to evaluate. > > Is there any sort of simple "starter kit" for newcomers getting going on > filtering out spam? > > Thank you for any advice aimed at a not-very-technical person! > -steven > When I used POP some years ago, what worked out of the box for me was using SpamAssassin as an external programme (spamc) during splitting, as described in the manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/SpamAssassin.html To quote from the relevant section: ,---- | [A] solution is to call the external tools during splitting. Example | fancy split method: | | (setq nnmail-split-fancy '(| (: kevin-spamassassin) | ...)) | | (defun kevin-spamassassin () | (save-excursion | (save-restriction | (widen) | (if (eq 1 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) | "spamc" nil nil nil "-c")) | "spam")))) `---- Kind regards, Enrico -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://enricoschumann.net _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
