Re: nnml splitting on encoded headers

[Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>]

rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) writes:

> Mark Thomas <swoon@bellatlantic.net> writes:
>
>> However, Gnus decodes the headers before running the split rules.  Check
>> out this ChangeLog entry:
>
> So... how do I turn this feature off?  I can understand how this would be
> useful for people who can read other character sets, so I don't want to
> see it removed entirely, but it's a serious problem for me.

You can turn it off with this:

(require 'cl)

(defadvice nnmail-article-group (around rra-dont-decode)
  "Don't decode headers before splitting."
  (flet ((mail-decode-encoded-word-region (start end) nil))
    ad-do-it))

(ad-activate 'nnmail-article-group)


But we should probably have a more obvious way of turning it off.  I
agree that splitting on unencoded headers is useful -- I do it myself in
.procmail.