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Re: mutt config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Mar 24 03:26:38 2009
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:25:53 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
Cc: debathena@MIT.EDU
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Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 24 Mar 2009
at 02:39:49 -0400 in <20090324063948.GD15690@mit.edu>:
> Using MIT spam filtering
> ------------------------
...
> consisting of its X-Spam-Score value. Then people who choose to do so
> can put the spam tag in their index view, or filter on it, or sort by it.
> For Mutt itself the spam tag is a totally opaque string.
Well, mutt will sort on it numerically, so it's not entirely opaque.
> The first line tells mutt to fetch "X-Spam-Score" when it fetches all
> the messages' headers for the index, so the second line can work.
>
> Probably few people will use this without knowing the documentation
> well and being quite able to configure it themselves, so the gain is
> not huge.
I guess. It's nice to have o,p work (sort-by-spam), but perhaps
that's insufficiently discoverable. Certainly setting the index is
insufficiently discoverable.
--jhawk
