Mail filtering

Mail filtering

[Shaun Lipscombe]

If I mail to a mailing list (gnus for example) because I have a filter
for gasops.co.uk: 

(nnmail-split-methods '(
                       ("gnus" "^\\(To:\\|Cc\\):.ding@gnus\\.org")	
		       ("gmsl" "^From:.*gasops\\.co\\.uk")
			)
)

my thinking would be that my post would appear in gnus, but it infact
appears in gmsl.  To put it another way, I would expect the matching
of the regular expression's to finish when a match is found.  When I
post to any mailing lists 'my' post appears in nnml:gmsl because it
was from me, but thats why I put the gmsl reg. expr. at the bottom.
Have I missed something.  This is annoying because it means that while
I am in nnml:gnus I can only see the follow-up (if any ;-p) to my post
but I cannot refer to my post to remind myself of the query I posed.

Thanks :-)
					

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Re: Mail filtering

[Kai.Grossjohann]

Shaun Lipscombe <shaun.lipscombe@gasops.co.uk> writes:

  > (nnmail-split-methods '(
  >                        ("gnus" "^\\(To:\\|Cc\\):.ding@gnus\\.org")	
  > 		       ("gmsl" "^From:.*gasops\\.co\\.uk")
  > 			)
  > )

You MUST have an entry with an empty regex.  Otherwise, mails which do
not match anything will be DELETED SILENTLY!

Your `gnus' regex searches for "To::" instead of "To:".

kai
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Re: Mail filtering

[Shaun Lipscombe]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:

> Shaun Lipscombe <shaun.lipscombe@gasops.co.uk> writes:
> 
>   > (nnmail-split-methods '(
>   >                        ("gnus" "^\\(To:\\|Cc\\):.ding@gnus\\.org")	
>   > 		       ("gmsl" "^From:.*gasops\\.co\\.uk")
>   > 			)
>   > )
>

I typed it in wrong.  This is what I have

;; Split
(setq nnmail-split-methods
	'(("edupage" "^From: Edupage Editors")
	  ("cert" "^From: CERT Advisory")
	  ("sybase" "^\\(To\\|Cc\\):.*ase-linux-list@isug\\.com")
	  ("gnus" "^\\(To\\|Cc\\):.*ding@gnus\\.org")
	  ("gmsl" "From:.*gasops\\.co\\.uk")
	  ("jokes" "^From: Jokes@Gagler\\.com")
	  ("other" "")))

Sorry.
 
> You MUST have an entry with an empty regex.  Otherwise, mails which do
> not match anything will be DELETED SILENTLY!
> 
> Your `gnus' regex searches for "To::" instead of "To:".
> 
> kai
> -- 
> I like _\bb_\bo_\bt_\bh kinds of music.

Any ideas now?

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Re: Mail filtering

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Shaun Lipscombe <shaun.lipscombe@gasops.co.uk> writes:

> I typed it in wrong.  This is what I have
> 
> ;; Split
> (setq nnmail-split-methods
> 	'(("edupage" "^From: Edupage Editors")
> 	  ("cert" "^From: CERT Advisory")
> 	  ("sybase" "^\\(To\\|Cc\\):.*ase-linux-list@isug\\.com")
> 	  ("gnus" "^\\(To\\|Cc\\):.*ding@gnus\\.org")
> 	  ("gmsl" "From:.*gasops\\.co\\.uk")
> 	  ("jokes" "^From: Jokes@Gagler\\.com")
> 	  ("other" "")))

Looks OK to me.  Are you sure that this is what `nnmail-split-methods' 
really is?  `C-h v nnmail-split-methods RET' will tell you the value
of the variable.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Mail filtering

[Shaun Lipscombe]

Yup its fine.  I'll have to see if I can give you more information
... hrmm.

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Re: Mail filtering

[Kai.Grossjohann]

Shaun Lipscombe <shaun.lipscombe@gasops.co.uk> writes:

  > my thinking would be that my post would appear in gnus, but it infact
  > appears in gmsl.

Does it appear *only* in gmsl, or does it appear in both groups?

If the latter, see the variable nnmail-crosspost.

kai
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Re: Mail filtering

[Shaun Lipscombe]

Only in gmsl :-(

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Re: Mail filtering

[Kai.Grossjohann]

I'm sorry that I can't help you any further.  The split looks right.
I don't understand why it doesn't split correctly.
kai
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Re: Mail filtering

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Shaun Lipscombe <shaun.lipscombe@gasops.co.uk> writes:

> (nnmail-split-methods '(
>                        ("gnus" "^\\(To:\\|Cc\\):.ding@gnus\\.org")	
                                        ^ <-- wrong
> 		       ("gmsl" "^From:.*gasops\\.co\\.uk")
> 			)
> )

The first item doesn't match because of a spurious colon.  The regexp
is saying something like "match `To:: ding@gnus.org' or `Cc: ding@gnus.org'.

Remove the colon and it should work.

Re: Mail filtering

[Kai.Grossjohann]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

  > The first item doesn't match because of a spurious colon.  The
  > regexp is saying something like "match `To:: ding@gnus.org' or
  > `Cc: ding@gnus.org'.

Look for another message where Shawn shows his _real_ entry: I don't
understand why that fails to work, either.

kai
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