Re: checking several headers when splitting mail

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
>
>> To give an example:
>>
>>
>> (setq nnmail-split-fancy '(|
>> 			   ;; some splitting rules can go here
>>
>> 			   (& (from
>> 			       "root@yun\\.yagibdah\\.de"
>> 			       "mail.sys.yun")
>> 			      ("Subject"
>> 			       "/var/log/.*"
>> 			       "mail.sys.yun"))
>>
>> 			   ;; some more splitting rules can go here
>> 			   )
>>
>>
>> Above rule checks the from headers *and* the Subject: header and splits
>> mail into the mail.sys.yun group only when both the from headers and the
>> Subject: header matches.
>
> Except that it doesn't work like that:

Hm, you're right. I tested it again and found that everything sent from
root is put into mail.sys.yun, regardless of the subject.

> If you want the mail to be delivered only when *both* conditions
> match, you need to nest the splits:

Yes, that's what I want :)


>                             (from "root@yun\\.yagibdah\\.de"
> 			          ("Subject" "/var/log/.*"
> 			           "mail.sys.yun"))

This doesn't work. I wonder that it doesn't produce an error message. I
spent quite some time trying to understand the documentation about fancy
splitting, and obviously I failed. What actually is a SPLIT?