Re: checking several headers when splitting mail

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

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
>
>> how do you check several headers when splitting mail? With neither the
>> normal splitting, nor fancy splitting I could figure out how to do that.
>
> Use an `&' rule.

Thanks! The funny thing is that I just figured it out a few minutes ago
and was going to post the solution here. On entering this group I'm
seeing your answer :)

As I already suspected, an (& ...) rule is needed. What I didn't expect
is that it's surprisingly simple. I thought a SPLIT always has to have
three parts and found that it doesn't. 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.

What looks strange to me is that I need to specify the group the mail
should go into for both the "from" and the "Subject" test. Perhaps
there's another way to do it?