Re: how to sort (filter) msg which contain MS word documents

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Apr 24 2008, Uwe Brauer wrote:

>>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>    > On Mon, Apr 14 2008, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>    >> I know that for new message I could use the gnus-splitting
>    >> group and specify the content type like: ("Content-type"
>    >> "application/msword" "DOC")
>
>    > Does this actually work?  I think that nnmail-split-methods only apply
>    > to the headers...
>
> You are right! So there is no way to split DOC attachments?

You need to widen the buffer during the splitting and search for
application/msword.  There's an example in (info "(gnus)Fancy Mail
Splitting") from where you can start:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Fancy Mail Splitting") ]
| `(: FUNCTION ARG1 ARG2 ...)'
|      If the split is a list, and the first element is `:', then the
|      second element will be called as a function with ARGS given as
|      arguments.  The function should return a SPLIT.
| 
|      For instance, the following function could be used to split based
|      on the body of the messages:
| 
|           (defun split-on-body ()
|             (save-excursion
|               (save-restriction
|                 (widen)
|                 (goto-char (point-min))
|                 (when (re-search-forward "Some.*string" nil t)
|                   "string.group"))))
| 
|      The buffer is narrowed to the header of the message in question
|      when FUNCTION is run.  That's why `(widen)' needs to be called
|      after `save-excursion' and `save-restriction' in the example
|      above.  Also note that with the nnimap backend, message bodies will
|      not be downloaded by default.  You need to set
|      `nnimap-split-download-body' to `t' to do that (*note Splitting in
|      IMAP::).
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