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* bug#39780: [PATCH] Mention 'spam-stat-process-directory-age' in the documentation
@ 2020-02-25 12:58 Štěpán Němec
  2020-04-18 11:51 ` Štěpán Němec
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Štěpán Němec @ 2020-02-25 12:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 39780

I was at a loss as to why my attempt to set up spam-stat seemed to
have no effect, only to find (digging in the code) that it was
ignoring most of the sample files due to this undocumented variable.

* doc/misc/gnus.texi (Creating a spam-stat dictionary): Document
the variable 'spam-stat-process-directory-age'.
---
 doc/misc/gnus.texi | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
index 424e15bc6d..718e269fc8 100644
--- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
@@ -25668,6 +25668,13 @@ Creating a spam-stat dictionary
 file is treated as one non-spam mail.
 @end defun
 
+@defvar spam-stat-process-directory-age
+Maximum age of files to be processed, in days.  Without this filter,
+re-training spam-stat with several thousand messages could take a long
+time.  The default is 90, but you might want to set this to a bigger
+value during the initial training.
+@end defvar
+
 Usually you would call @code{spam-stat-process-spam-directory} on a
 directory such as @file{~/Mail/mail/spam} (this usually corresponds to
 the group @samp{nnml:mail.spam}), and you would call
-- 
2.25.1






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