Re: per-message automatic splitting (with Sieve)

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I wonder if anybody is interested in the following which I've cooked
> up for better use of nnimap with Sieve splitting on the Cyrus server.
>
> You know, I used to be a great fan of nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent
> which split a followup into the same group as the original.  I wanted
> to have this for Sieve splitting, too, but there it is not so simple.
>
> So I came up with the following method: I create custom Message-ID
> headers which contain the right group name, and I do some Sieve rules
> which grok this special Message-ID format.
>
> Here's the code which creates my Message-ID headers:

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> This piece of code takes a Sieve script and inserts rules which split
> incoming messages based on the tokens in the Message-ID.

Sounds cool. What if I use your trick too, but I use folder
INBOX.sung.otua for Gnus mailing-list (I read some group name from
right to left and use folder INBOX.auto.gnus for automobile news :-).
Then my MID is blahblah.fsf@INBOX.sung.otua.tok.zsh.cs.rochester.edu.
Your trick breaks :-(.

ShengHuo