Re: nnml splitting on encoded headers

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?= <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> Mark Thomas <swoon@bellatlantic.net> writes:

>> I have split rules:
>>   ("subject"  "=\\?euc-kr\\?"          "mail.spam.asian")
>>   ("subject"  "=\\?ks_c_5601-1987\\?"  "mail.spam.asian")
>> but these don't to work because Gnus has already decoded the messages.

> Is this really true?  Maybe fancy splitting matches on word
> boundaries only, but "=" is not part of a word, so it can never be
> start of a word.  Maybe it works to add .* in front and rear of these
> regular expressions.

Kai's right.  It does work; I use this all the time.  It isn't Gnus
decoding that's stopping this from working, but is instead the fact that
Gnus by default expects word boundaries on either side of the pattern so
you have to add .* before and after.

Incidentally, though, Gnus *does* appear to decode first and then apply
score files.  Is there any way around this so that one can use the same
patterns in score files for groups that are gatewayed mailing lists?

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>