rmail in emacs

rmail in emacs

[Don Saklad]

1. What does the q represent mnemonically?... in setq


2. Would any of you nice folks out there knowledgeable about rmail in emacs
   have any ideas, hints, tips or pointers about modifying for the better
   any of the lines of this program?...



;; sa-spam-removal.el
;;
;; Copyright (c) 2003 Trevis J. Rothwell tjr at gnu.org
;;
;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
;; (at your option) any later version.
;;
;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
;; Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA


;; Before deleting a spam, this program copies it
;; to the file specified by `rmail-spam-file'.
(setq rmail-spam-file "RMAIL-SPAM")

(defun sa-spam-removal ()
  (interactive)
  (progn
    (rmail-first-message)
    (setq rtm rmail-total-messages)
    (while (< rmail-current-message rtm)
      (sa-spam-removal-main))))

(defun sa-spam-removal-main ()
  (setq spam-stat (mail-fetch-field "X-Spam-Status"))

  (if (not (eq spam-stat nil))
      (if (eq (compare-strings spam-stat 0 2 "Yes" 0 2) t)
	  (progn
	    (rmail-output-to-rmail-file rmail-spam-file)
	    (rmail-delete-message)
	    (rmail-next-undeleted-message 1))
	(rmail-next-undeleted-message 1))
    (rmail-next-undeleted-message 1)))

Re: rmail in emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 04:55:13 GMT
> 
> 1. What does the q represent mnemonically?... in setq

It represents ``quote'', I think.

Re: rmail in emacs

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   2. Would any of you nice folks out there knowledgeable about rmail
      in emacs have any ideas, hints, tips or pointers about modifying
      for the better any of the lines of this program?...

Improve it in what fashion?  I assume that it works...

Cheers

Re: rmail in emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>From: Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org>
>>Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 04:55:13 GMT
>>
>>1. What does the q represent mnemonically?... in setq
>>
> 
> It represents ``quote'', I think.

Right:


(setq variable value) == (set (quote variable) value)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers