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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:
> > `from' and `mail' are predefined regexp's that match the "From:" field 
> > and the mailer-daemon sender, respectively.
> 
> When you say "predefined" do you mean in emacs or gnus *.el files
> somewhere or do you mean that you have it 'predefined" somewhere?
> Runing 'eval-region' or  'eval-last-sexp' just says 
> "Symbol function definition is void: from"

There's a customizable assoc list nnmail-split-abbrev-alist which is
checked if a symbol is found rather than a string.  See nnmail.el.