Re: Splitting mail

[Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk>]

Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

> Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > However rules of this format are ignored by nnmail-split-methods. Does 
> > anyone know why?
> 
> I can think of a couple of possibilities.
> 
> > ((concat mail.misc. (format-time-string
> >  	       "%Y-%m" (current-time))) "^To:.*typhoon*")
> 
> You probably want double quotes around "mail.misc.", unless you have a
> variable by that name and actually want its value.

Sorry. I did try it with double quotes before sending the message (and 
about 100 other permutations of quotes and brackets. Nothing seems to
work except for the plain (folder-name regexp) rules.
 
> > (list (format-time-string "mail.misc-%m-%y") "^To:.*zcaceog*")
> 
> This one looks okay on its own, but...
> 
> You don't show exactly how you are setting nnmail-split-methods.  The
> typical way is by setq'ing it to a quoted list of lists.  If that is
> what you are doing, the quoting may be preventing the evaluation of
> your rules.

Below are the start and finish of my normal mail split rules.

;; Split mail into groups
(setq nnmail-split-methods
	'(("redhat.digests.v97.p2" "^From: redhat-digest-request@redhat.com")
...
		("spam" "")))

-- 
Eze Ogwuma