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"Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)" <jens-ulrik.petersen@nokia.com> writes:

> I found the restriction that string VALUE regexp's should match to
> whole words too restrictive...

There are zillions of nnmail-split-fancy rules written using that
assumption, and many of them represent a huge work effort.  Mine has
approximately 300 rules.  

If you want the rules to be interpreted differently, invent a new
variable and a new split method for it.