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Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:

> Below are the start and finish of my normal mail split rules.
> 
> ;; Split mail into groups
> (setq nnmail-split-methods
> 	'(("redhat.digests.v97.p2" "^From: redhat-digest-request@redhat.com")
> ...
> 		("spam" "")))

Try something like this instead.  Quote (') will quote whatever you
write.

;; split mail according to theese regexps
(setq nnmail-split-methods
      (list
       '("sendfail"             "^From: Mail Delivery Subsystem")
	...
       (list (format-time-string "private-%m-%y")          
	     			"^\\(Apparently-To\\|ReSent-To\\|To\\|Cc\\):.*\\(Josefsson\\|jas@\\(nada\\|pdc\\).kth.se\\)")
       '("spam"                 "")))

/S