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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