Re: RFC: marking spam via refs/notes/spam to hide it

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 07:33:32PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
>> > Aside from the git note, public-inbox-learn already does that:
>> >
>> >   public-inbox-learn spam </path/to/message
>> >
>> >   (scans everything in ~/.public-inbox/config since spam is
>> >   frequently cross-posted)
>>
>> Ah, that shows how carefully I read docs, I guess. :) Is it possible to just
>> specify a message-id, so that there's no extra step to dump the spam message
>> into a file?
>
>Not exactly with the Message-ID arg.  It would be dangerous if
>somebody malicious wanted to get you to remove a legit message
>by sending a spam message which reuses a Message-ID of a legit
>message.  I'd definitely want to verify a message is what I'd
>want to remove, first.

This makes sense, thanks. I tried it out and it works to remove spam 
from the frontend, but spamc step seems to fail with a somewhat 
incongruous error code:

spamc failed with: 18944

Any pointers where I should look to figure out which part is failing?

-K