Re: Splitting of ding@ifi

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> 	     (| (any "ding@\\(ifi\\.uio\\.no\\|gnus\\.org\\)" "ding.gnus")

Thanks.  I think I'll have to use that.

> 		("x-from-line" "ding-request" "ding.gnus"))

Do you mean to say that splitting on `X-From-Line' actually works for
you?  For me it doesn't, because this header is not created when the
splitting is done -- it's still the plain `From_'.  Once the mail is
is saved to Gnus folders, `B q' and `B r' give the correct results,
though.

Still, matching on `X-From-Line' is not usable for me.  If it were, it
would be very simple to weed out the mails from any mailing list.

Matching the `From_' header is the one feature from the usual mail
splitting that I miss in fancy mail splitting.  Lars, can you make
`nnmail-split-it' construct a non-`:' regexp for a special `from_'
entry?  E.g.:

(setq nnmail-split-fancy
      '(| ...
          (from_ "ding" "ding.list")
          ...))

Which would construct a regexp like:

"^from .*\\<ding\\>"

or something like that.

P.S.
To the people not familiar with `nnmail-split-fancy': note that just
specifying a ("from " "ding" "ding.list") entry won't work, as it
would insist on having a `:' in the entry (it would create a regexp
to the effect of "from :.*\\<ding\\>").  Matching on `X-From-Line'
doesn't work either, for the reasons stated above.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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