Re: per group split rules

["Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>]

On Mon, Nov 08 2021, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:
>
>> i have my mail-sources set to '((group)), so that each of my
>> nnml groups has a mail-source of its own (typically reading
>> a spool file or a local maildir, populated asynchronously).
>> is there a way of having split rules (fancy or not) that
>> apply /only/ to a given nnml group, rather than globally to
>> all incoming mail?
>
> Respooling perhaps ... how often/when is this supposed
> to happen?

every time i import new mail, so i think that's not going to be
practical.

>> or, alternatively, is it possible to have a (global) split
>> rule that says (when nnmail-resplit-incoming is t) something
>> like: "leave this message in the group which fetched it via
>> its mail-source parameter"?
>
> You can use functions instead of regexps both with fancy and
> regular so put it there if so, I guess?

yes, one of my first thoughts, but when a splitting function is called,
the incoming mail has been inserted in a temp current buffer and there
seems to be no way of knowing what its original mail-source was (but i
have to try again and check the value of that variable, maybe it's still
set... i am not sure i tried that).

thanks,
jao
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