On 2015-09-20 09:06 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > ... so, no matter how "bad" a message is (let's say, a top post, a > > thread hijack, an ALL CAPS subject, and unlimited line length LOL), the > > worst it can score is 0. Am I right? I haven't used mutt scoring yet, > > so I am trying to learn how to best put it to my purposes. It seems > > to me that for flagging "badness" positive scores would be much more > > convenient. Am I missing something as usual? > > You missed, that you can score as well positive values and the rules are > summed up to a final score value, "rouded" to zero if at the end of the > day negative. See my score part of my ~/.muttrc (some mail addrs > overwritten with xxxx).
But you have to start with some arbitrary value as the default score (10 in your case) and you're still limited how low you can go before your negative scores are clipped (to use a photography term which seems oddly apt). What is the reason for this design decision in mutt, I wonder? Is it just the ambiguity when trying to parse score CONDITION -1 where -1 could be the negative score -1, or it could be an abbreviated range with upper bound +1. That could be easily fixed by changing the range separator, for example to "..". -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.
