Re: splitting on body

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On 22 Aug 2003, ketil+@ii.uib.no wrote:

> Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt@t-mittelstaedt.de> writes:
> 
>> "Ketil Malde" <ketil+@ii.uib.no> writes:
> 
>>> I'm struggling to split messages based on body, using the example
>>> from the Info manual:
> 
>>>           (defun split-on-body ()
>>>             (save-excursion
>>>               (set-buffer " *nnmail incoming*")
>>>               (goto-char (point-min))
>>>               (when (re-search-forward "Some.*string" nil t)
>>>                 "string.group")))
> 
>> Why don't you use procmail to do split-on-body stuff?
> 
> Because I'm retrieving mail from an IMAP server?  And of course,
> because I want to retain my belief that I'm using the most capable
> MUA known to mankind :-)
> 
> I suppose I could replace the call to SET-BUFFER with something that
> first checks for the existence of the buffer?  In what buffer can I
> find the current message when respooling?

I am pretty sure the current buffer contains the message while
splitting, you don't need to change buffers.  Look at the spam-split
function in spam.el, it does body-based analysis for statistical spam
filters.  Remember you have to set the nnimap-split-download-body
variable if you want to see the whole body with nnimap splitting.

Ted