nnmail-split-methods confusion

nnmail-split-methods confusion

[Doug Alcorn]

I'm trying to prevent any html formatted mail message from ending up
in my various folders.  The common denominator in all the offending
messages is the content-type.  I thought I could just add a filter in
the split methods for this.  Here's what I have:

(setq nnmail-split-methods
					'(("html-junk" "^Content-Type: multipart/alternative")
					  ("yahoo" "^X-Gnus-Mail-Source.*yahoo\\.com")
					  ("inbox" "")))

Unfortunately, this causes the offending messages to end up in _both_
"html-junk" and either "yahoo" or "inbox".  I thought that
nnmail-split-methods worked kindof like procmail: once a rule is
matched it quits appling rules.
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Re: nnmail-split-methods confusion

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Doug Alcorn <doug@lathi.net> writes:

> I'm trying to prevent any html formatted mail message from ending up
> in my various folders.  The common denominator in all the offending
> messages is the content-type.  I thought I could just add a filter in
> the split methods for this.  Here's what I have:
> 
> (setq nnmail-split-methods
> 					'(("html-junk" "^Content-Type: multipart/alternative")
> 					  ("yahoo" "^X-Gnus-Mail-Source.*yahoo\\.com")
> 					  ("inbox" "")))
> 
> Unfortunately, this causes the offending messages to end up in _both_
> "html-junk" and either "yahoo" or "inbox".  I thought that
> nnmail-split-methods worked kindof like procmail: once a rule is
> matched it quits appling rules.

(setq nnmail-crosspost nil) is what you are looking for.

ShengHuo

Re: nnmail-split-methods confusion

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Alcorn <doug@lathi.net> writes:


    Doug> I thought that nnmail-split-methods worked kindof like
    Doug> procmail: once a rule is matched it quits appling rules.

No, by default it puts it everywhere it matches the rule. For the
behavior you want, you should say:

(setq nnmail-crosspost nil)

You have to be careful about doing this -- it suddenly means that the
order you have the rules in matters a lot, and mail can end up in an
unexpected place.

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