Re: Simple feature beg

[David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> writes:
> 
> > 1. it would learn its concept of filing rules after you filed a message
> >    once.  (Mew's filing is like 'B m'.)  It did this simply based on the
> >    From: header, but it was still quite useful.  I don't want to set up
> >    filing rules foe every possible piece of mail.  It also supplied a
> >    useful default generated from the user-id in the From: line, so this
> >    message would file into 'tibbs' by default.
> 
> This is certainly doable, but these new split rules would have to be
> stored somewhere.  And I think a new split variable would have to be
> added, which makes things more complicated than they already are, so I
> don't know if it's worth it...

Might be able to leverage on custom to store them somehow.  Also, I
don't think you'd want a new variable.  Well, it would be a new
variable, but not directly parsed by gnus for splitting.  Probably
better to let the user splice those rules into their own split rules at
an appropriate place.



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