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Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net> writes:

> Hello World,
> 
> I'm converting over to nnmail-split-methods from my old
> home-grown perl+procmail splitting system.  (Hey, gnus does
> everything else, why deprive it of this one pleasure ;-)
> 
> So I started building the nnmail-split-methods alist and discovered
> that there are some parts I just don't want to build by hand.
> Then I found (make-regexp) and was happy again.
> 
> But now the question is, how do I build the nnmail-split-methods
> alist with the _value_ of (make-regexp) in it?

  Backquote:

(setq nnmail-split-methods
      (list '("letterpress" "Sender:.*letpress@")
	    '("minolta" "To:.*minolta-l")
	    '("emacs.ding" "To:.*ding@")
	    `("spam" ,@(make-regexp '("From:.*@savetrees.com"
				      "From:.*@ispam.net"
				      "From:.*@earthlink.net"
				      "Subject:.*are you being investigated")))
	    '("dssslist" "To:.*dssslist")))

-Bill P.