Mail Splitting problem

Mail Splitting problem

[Eze Ogwuma]

Hi,

I am running 5.6.42 and I have encountered a mail splitting problem. 

Most of my mail is split by functions like:

       (list (format-time-string "redhat.list.%Y.%m") 
	     "^X-Mailing-List:.<redhat-list@redhat.com>")

However I've found that the only new group to arrive this month was the 
archive group. I've checked in the Mail directory and the groups
aren't being created there either.

It seems that mail is just being put into the old folders (I hope so
anyway).


Below are the functions that I use to split my mail and to create my
archive groups.

;; Create archive group
     (setq gnus-message-archive-group
           '((if (message-news-p)
                 "misc-news"
               (concat "misc-mail-" (format-time-string
                                "%Y-%m" (current-time))))))

;; Split mail into groups
(setq nnmail-split-methods
      (list
       (list (format-time-string "redhat.list.%Y.%m") 
	     "^X-Mailing-List:.<redhat-list@redhat.com>")
       (list (format-time-string "manhattan.%Y.%m")
	     "^Resent-From:.manhattan-list@redhat.com")
       (list (format-time-string "rpm.%Y.%m") 
	     "^\\(To\\|Resent-From\\):.*rpm-list")
       (list (format-time-string "Applixware.%Y.%m") 
	     "^\\(To\\|Resent-From\\):.*applixware-list")
       (list (format-time-string "Gnus.%Y.%m") 
	     "^\\(To\\|Cc\\|From\\):.*\\(ding\\|gnus\\|Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen\\)")
       (list (format-time-string "exmh.%Y") 
	     "^\\(To\\|Resent-From\\):.*exmh")
       '("pgsql" "^Sender:.*@hub.org")
       '("pgsql" "^\\(To\\|Cc\\):.*\\(pgsql\\|postgreSQL\\)")
       (list (format-time-string "announce.%Y") 
	     "^Resent-From:.redhat-announce-list@redhat.com")
       (list (format-time-string "watch.%Y")
	      "^X-Mailing-List:.<redhat-watch-list@redhat.com>")
       (list (format-time-string "contrib.%Y") 
	     "^Resent-From:.contrib-list@redhat.com")
       '("CS" "^From:.*@cs.ucl.ac.uk")
       '("executor" "^From:.owner-executor-digest@ardi.com")
       '("Wine" "^To:.wine-patches@tiger.informatik.hu-berlin.de")
       '("qddb" "^\\(To\\|Cc\\|From\\):.*\\(hsdi.com\\|qddb-users\\)")
       '("ghostscript" "^\\(To\\|Cc\\|From\\):.*ghost@typhoon.dircon.co.uk")
       '("mail.system" "^\\(From\\|Subject\\):.*\\(Mail Delivery Subsystem\\|MAILER-DAEMON\\|postmaster\\|Undeliverable Message\\)")
       '("mail.misc" "^\\(To\\|Cc\\|From\\):.*\\(typhoon\\|zcaceog\\|zcapk09\\|students\\|ogwuma\\)")
       '("spam" "")))

-- 
Eze Ogwuma

Re: Mail Splitting problem

[Eze Ogwuma]

Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I am running 5.6.42 and I have encountered a mail splitting problem. 
> 
> Most of my mail is split by functions like:
> 
>        (list (format-time-string "redhat.list.%Y.%m") 
> 	     "^X-Mailing-List:.<redhat-list@redhat.com>")
> 
> However I've found that the only new group to arrive this month was the 
> archive group. I've checked in the Mail directory and the groups
> aren't being created there either.
> 
> It seems that mail is just being put into the old folders (I hope so
> anyway).

It seems that the problem might be that Gnus doesn't check the date
each time it splits mail. It just assumes the date is the same as the
date it was started.

I just shut down my version of XEmacs and restarted it. Now new mail
gets split correctly. Seems like a bug.
-- 
Eze Ogwuma

Re: Mail Splitting problem

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> On 02 Sep 1998, Eze Ogwuma said:

  Eze> It seems that the problem might be that Gnus doesn't check the
  Eze> date each time it splits mail. It just assumes the date is the
  Eze> same as the date it was started.

That's obvious.  When Gnus starts, the code in ~/.gnus is being run.
The code says `set the split method according to the date right now'.
That is, the nnmail-split-methods variable already contains 1998-09-02
or whatever the date is.

I don't know how to make Gnus eval code that sets nnmail-split-methods
anew.  You could use midnight.el, though, to eval the (setq
nnmail-split-methods ...) every day at midnight.

kai
-- 
OOP: object oriented programming;  OOPS: object oriented mistakes

Re: Mail Splitting problem

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> I don't know how to make Gnus eval code that sets nnmail-split-methods
> anew.  You could use midnight.el, though, to eval the (setq
> nnmail-split-methods ...) every day at midnight.

That's one way.  The other way is to use `:' fancy split tokens that
will allow you to create generated-on-the-fly group names.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Mail Splitting problem

[Eze Ogwuma]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> >>>>> On 02 Sep 1998, Eze Ogwuma said:
> 
>   Eze> It seems that the problem might be that Gnus doesn't check the
>   Eze> date each time it splits mail. It just assumes the date is the
>   Eze> same as the date it was started.
> 
> That's obvious.  When Gnus starts, the code in ~/.gnus is being run.
> The code says `set the split method according to the date right now'.
> That is, the nnmail-split-methods variable already contains 1998-09-02
> or whatever the date is.

Right. Thanks.

> I don't know how to make Gnus eval code that sets nnmail-split-methods
> anew.  You could use midnight.el, though, to eval the (setq
> nnmail-split-methods ...) every day at midnight.

Well how about checking the date before each INC operation.

What happens when the "W T <x>" date options are used on Articles?
-- 
Eze Ogwuma