rmail-spam-filter: how to find rejection rule

rmail-spam-filter: how to find rejection rule

[gry]

[GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9, X toolkit)]
rmail-spam-filter.el arch-tag: 03e1d45d-b72f-4dd7-8f04-e7fd78249746

I have rmail-spam-filter basically working.  But it appears that some
entry in
rsf-definitions-alist is catching a portion of valid email.

Is there any way to
find out *which* clause in rsf-definitions-alist caught a particular
message
[as saved in XRMAIL-SPAM]?  It would help tremendously if there was
some
record made of which clause caught which message.  Perhaps an added
header
in each mesasge in XRMAIL-SPAM, or a separate (optional) log file
showing 
message-id vs. rsf-definitions-alist entry?

Re: rmail-spam-filter: how to find rejection rule

[Kevin Rodgers]

gry@ll.mit.edu wrote:
> [GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9, X toolkit)]
> rmail-spam-filter.el arch-tag: 03e1d45d-b72f-4dd7-8f04-e7fd78249746
> 
> I have rmail-spam-filter basically working.  But it appears that some
> entry in
> rsf-definitions-alist is catching a portion of valid email.
> 
> Is there any way to
> find out *which* clause in rsf-definitions-alist caught a particular
> message
> [as saved in XRMAIL-SPAM]?  It would help tremendously if there was
> some
> record made of which clause caught which message.  Perhaps an added
> header
> in each mesasge in XRMAIL-SPAM, or a separate (optional) log file
> showing 
> message-id vs. rsf-definitions-alist entry?

That of course is possible if you hack the rmail-spam-filter function.

But for a quick-and-dirty diagnostic, try this:

(defadvice check-field (after log-spam-result activate)
   "Log spam result in the *Messages* buffer."
   (when (and (first ad-return-value) (rest ad-return-value))
     (message "check-field: %s test in %s rule matched \"%s\""
              (ad-get-arg 0) (ad-get-arg 2) (ad-get-arg 1))))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers