Re: how to sort (filter) msg which contain MS word documents

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

   >> 
   >> You are right! So there is no way to split DOC attachments?

   > You need to widen the buffer during the splitting and search for
   > application/msword.  There's an example in (info "(gnus)Fancy Mail
   > Splitting") from where you can start:


Thanks!
   > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Fancy Mail Splitting") ]
   > | `(: FUNCTION ARG1 ARG2 ...)'
   > |      If the split is a list, and the first element is `:', then the
   > |      second element will be called as a function with ARGS given as
   > |      arguments.  The function should return a SPLIT.
   > | 
   > |      For instance, the following function could be used to split based
   > |      on the body of the messages:
   > | 
   > |           (defun split-on-body ()
   > |             (save-excursion
   > |               (save-restriction
   > |                 (widen)
   > |                 (goto-char (point-min))
   > |                 (when (re-search-forward "Some.*string" nil t)
   > |                   "string.group"))))
   > | 
   > |      The buffer is narrowed to the header of the message in question
   > |      when FUNCTION is run.  That's why `(widen)' needs to be called
   > |      after `save-excursion' and `save-restriction' in the example
   > |      above.  Also note that with the nnimap backend, message bodies will
   > |      not be downloaded by default.  You need to set
   > |      `nnimap-split-download-body' to `t' to do that (*note Splitting in
   > |      IMAP::).
The problem is that I have to set nnimap-split-download-body to t, and
that will slow down the downloaded considerably which is slow enough.

I tried out,

(gnus-summary-limit-to-bodies "application/msword" nil)
in a given group and that seems to work ok.


Uwe