Re: Split mail on two headers

[Harry <reader@newsguy.com>]

On 7 Apr 1998, Justin Sheehy wrote:

Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:
> 
> > > Harry Putnam writes:
> 
> > > 	    (from mail
> > > 		  (| ("\\(resent-\\)?\\(to\\|cc\\)" "craffert"
"mail.daemon")
> > > 		     "mail.auto.spam"))
> 
> > Runing 'eval-region' or  'eval-last-sexp' just says 
> > "Symbol function definition is void: from"
> 
> That is because you are not actually supposed to evaluate that form.
> It is a splitting rule, not an expression to be evaluated.

> Why did you try to eval it?  This is simply a snippet of what you
>may wish to set nnmail-split-fancy to.  There is a very clear example
>of this in the documentation of that variable.

Just saying loudly that it is "very clear" does not make it so.
Not 'very clear' to everyone.

Not all of us know all the uses of evaling things, in this case my aim
was to try and learn more about what it meant by comparing eval with
eval of my existing "snippets" of mail split phrases.  Not to
determine if it was a complete program.
 
> Please read the fine manual.

I imagine your patience is wearing thin on my ramblings, but it must
be quite apparent that I *am* reading just about everything I can get
my hands on including the nnmail.el file that covers this topic.  And
thesections in Info.  The problem is that I am not understanding enough
of it.

So exortations to RTFM may not be all that usefull or pertinent.

-- 

Harry  <reader@newsguy.com>