From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16599 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mail Splitting problem Date: 02 Sep 1998 14:15:41 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155446 28811 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA08713 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:14:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAF00493; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:44:36 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 02 Sep 1998 08:13:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA27717 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:13:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (mailhost.dircon.co.uk [194.112.32.65]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA08697 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:13:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (th-en135-099.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.54.99]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA28346; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:12:59 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA19446; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:15:41 +0100 Original-To: Kai Grossjohann In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "02 Sep 1998 13:23:26 +0200" Original-Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.42/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16599 Kai Grossjohann 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 " date options are used on Articles? -- Eze Ogwuma