Re: Splitting and procmail

[Mark Triggs <mst@dishevelled.net>]

Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:

> I have mail-source set to '((directory :path "~/Mail" :suffix "")) and
> is using procmail to filter my email.

[...]

> So, my question is now: Mail splitting cannot be used togeather with
> procmail, right?
>
> My idea was to use mail splitting (maybe the fancy one too) and have
> procmail do the spam filtering. I.e all mail except for spam are
> placed in Mainmailbox and all spam are placed in Spam. Mainmailbox
> should be splitted but the Spam box should not.

It should be possible. I *think* that if you use the 'directory'
mail-source directive to grab your mail, it isn't run through the
splitting process, as each file in that directory is assumed to
correspond to a gnus group. So, if you want stuff to be split, you'll
need to use the 'file' directive instead.

In your case, you could probably just specify your mail-sources as
'((file :path "~/Mail/Mainmailbox" :suffix "")). In my config, I have
something like:

  (setq mail-sources
        '((directory :path "~/docs/mail/incoming" :suffix ".spool")
  	;; Check this one separately for splitting purposes.
  	(file :path "~/docs/mail/incoming/personal.spool")))

In this case, personal.spool is split via my splitting rules, and the
rest of the files in that directory are just put directly into their
corresponding groups.

Hope this helps a bit, anyway.

Mark

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Mark Triggs
<mst@dishevelled.net>