Re: Features that make you love Gnus?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On Mon, Sep 24 2012, Adam Sjøgren wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:26:59 +0800, Eric wrote:
>
>> I'd like a way to set up an arbitrary handling mechanism for incoming
>> mail. So I set some regexps on headers, and incoming mail that matches
>> gets fed to a function I wrote.
>
> Can't you do that with fancy splitting? I'd think that is roughly what
> happens when I have a split that is:
>  
>           ; Get rid of spam:
>           (: spam-split)
>
> or:
>
>           (: (lambda ()
>                (car (bbdb/gnus-split-method))))
>
> or:
>
>           ; Resend to mobile:
>           ;   Must not match, otherwise the splitting ends here maybe it
>           ;   would be nicer to (& (resend-to-mobile-split) (| (the rest))) ?
>           (: resend-to-mobile-split "my-mobile@example.com")
>
>> Now is when someone tells me that gnus has had this feature since 1997.
>
> I'm not quite sure when fancy splitting was introduced.

No kidding, that does work. Thanks! It seemed odd at first, like a
misuse of splitting, but I guess you can see it as an extension of the
split…

Thanks again,
E

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