Re: checking several headers when splitting mail

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

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

> To give an example:
>
>
> (setq nnmail-split-fancy '(|
> 			   ;; some splitting rules can go here
>
> 			   (& (from
> 			       "root@yun\\.yagibdah\\.de"
> 			       "mail.sys.yun")
> 			      ("Subject"
> 			       "/var/log/.*"
> 			       "mail.sys.yun"))
>
> 			   ;; some more splitting rules can go here
> 			   )
>
>
> Above rule checks the from headers *and* the Subject: header and splits
> mail into the mail.sys.yun group only when both the from headers and the
> Subject: header matches.

Except that it doesn't work like that:

(& SPLIT...): Process each SPLIT expression.

Thus the mail is stored into mail.sys.yun if From matches "root@..."
*or* Subject matches "/var/log/...".  If you want the mail to be
delivered only when *both* conditions match, you need to nest the
splits:

                            (from "root@yun\\.yagibdah\\.de"
			          ("Subject" "/var/log/.*"
			           "mail.sys.yun"))

(The | and & symbols should not be interpreted as logical operators, but
rather as sequencing operators.)

Andreas.

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