Re: fancy splitting and procmail

[Boris DAIX <Boris.Daix@insa-lyon.fr>]

Adrian Kubala  <kubalaa@eikon.tum.de> writes:

> Ooh, ohh, I wanna answer! I just had this explained to me, so I'll see if I
> can explain it on to you. Someone else can probably do it better, but maybe
> this will be enough for you to go on.

Thanks a lot :-)

> Boris DAIX <Boris.Daix@insa-lyon.fr> wrote:
>> (setq mail-sources '((directory :path "~/spool/")
>> 			(file :path "/var/spool/mail/bdaix")))
>
> Okay, so this means each file in ~/spool goes to a separate group without
> being split, while messages in your /var spool file go through the normal
> splitting. I.e. ~/spool/list.debian-foo.spool goes automatically to
> nnml+private:list.debian-foo.
>
>> But now, I'd like to split the whole stuff better, within gnus, I tried
>> adding.
>
> Okay, so you want to stop auto-splitting the procmail spools, and split them
> manually instead. To do that, you can try "nnmail-resplit-incoming" (though
> maybe this doesn't work in Oort?), or change "directory" to a bunch of "file"
> entries, one for each procmail spool. File entries are always split, directory
> entries aren't.
>
> Then, to manually achieve the same effect as auto-splitting, use the header
> "X-Gnus-Mail-Source" in your split:

What does this mean ? I was ok 'till there... ;-) I'll try it but if
someone knows what it means...

> (setq mail-sources '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/krid")
>                      (file :path "/home/krid/Mail/IN.list")
>                      (file :path "/home/krid/Mail/IN.spam")))
>
> (setq nnmail-split-fancy
>       '(|
> [..]
>         ("X-Gnus-Mail-Source" "IN.list"           "list.misc")
> [..]
>
> (courtesy of Dirk Bernhardt)
>
> -Adrian


Thanks a lot again !

Boris