--- nnmail.el	1997/02/02 21:31:10	1.1
+++ nnmail.el	1997/02/02 21:33:46
@@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@
    ;; Check the cache for the regexp for this split.
    ;; FIX FIX FIX could avoid calling assq twice here
    ((assq split nnmail-split-cache)
-    (goto-char (point-max))
+    (goto-char (point-min))
     ;; FIX FIX FIX problem with re-search-backward is that if you have
     ;; a split: (from "foo-\\(bar\\|baz\\)@gnus.org "mail.foo.\\1")
     ;; and someone mails a message with 'To: foo-bar@gnus.org' and
@@ -1148,15 +1148,15 @@
     ;; removed duplicates, since there might be more of those.
     ;; I guess we could also remove duplicates in the & split case, since
     ;; that's the only thing that can introduce them.
-    (when (re-search-backward (cdr (assq split nnmail-split-cache)) nil t)
+    (when (re-search-forward (cdr (assq split nnmail-split-cache)) nil t)
       ;; Someone might want to do a \N sub on this match, so get the
       ;; correct match positions.
-      (goto-char (match-end 0))
+      (goto-char (match-end 2))
       (let ((value (nth 1 split)))
-	(re-search-backward (if (symbolp value)
+	(re-search-forward (if (symbolp value)
 				(cdr (assq value nnmail-split-abbrev-alist))
 			      value)
-			    (match-end 1)))
+			   (match-end 0)))
       (nnmail-split-it (nth 2 split))))
 
    ;; Not in cache, compute a regexp for the field/value pair.