Re: checking several headers when splitting mail

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>]

lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
>>
>>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>>>
>>>>                             (from "root@yun\\.yagibdah\\.de"
>>>> 			          ("Subject" "/var/log/.*"
>>>> 			           "mail.sys.yun"))
>>>
>>> This doesn't work.
>>
>> In which way does it not work?
>
> It doesn't seem to have any effects. I expected it to yield an error
> message, and to my surprise it didn't. When I press B q on a message
> that supposedly would match, like
>
> ,----
> | From: root <root@yun.yagibdah.de>
> | Subject: /var/log/exim4/rejectlog
> `----
>
> ... gnus says it'll go to mail.0-incoming.

That's because "\\</var/log/.*" doesn't match "/var/log/exim4/rejectlog".

> A group name like "mail.sys.yun" is not a structure, so that cannot be
> a SPLIT.

The format of this variable is SPLIT, where SPLIT can be one of
the following:

GROUP: Mail will be stored in GROUP (a string).

Andreas.

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