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My guess is that this has to do with the fact that nnmail-split-it
uses re-search-backwards to do it's pattern matching. 

BrYan

Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu> writes:
> I must be being pretty dense here -- perhaps someone could help me
> out.  Here's the rule:
>
> 	("Resent-To"
> 	 "\\(.+\\)@packages\\.qa\\.debian\\.org"
> 	 "mail.debian.pts.\\1")
>
> This does not work.
>
> Variations on this, such as .*, [a-z-_]+ (or *), \\w+, etc do not
> work!  The versions with * always seem to match nothing, and the
> message would be split into mail.debian.pts., the versions with +
> always seem to match e: mail.debian.pts.e
>
> The message I'm using for testing has this header:
>
> Resent-To: developers-reference@packages.qa.debian.org
>
> This works fine:
>
> (let ((str "developers-reference@packages.qa.debian.org"))
>   (string-match "\\<\\(.*\\)@packages\\.qa\\.debian\\.org\\>" str)
>   (match-string 1 str))
>
> => "developers-reference"
>
> What could possibly be going on here?