rmail in emacs

[Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org>]

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
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;;
;; 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
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;;
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;; 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)))