problems debugging mail splitting rules

problems debugging mail splitting rules

[Ben Elliston]

I am using the basic nnmail-split-methods variable to specify mail
splitting rules for GNUS.  Here is an abbreviated version from my
.emacs:

  (setq nnmail-split-methods
        '(("mail.system.backups" "^From.*amanda@")
	 ("mail.system.cron" "^Subject: Cron")
	 ("mail.personal" "")))

The problem I am having with this is that I routinely get a single
message being split into two different mail groups, giving me a copy
of the message in each group.  I thought that this list was traversed
top to bottom and that the first match terminated the search?

Why might I be getting duplicates?  How can I troubleshoot it?

Thanks, Ben

Re: problems debugging mail splitting rules

[Henrik Enberg]

Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com> writes:

> The problem I am having with this is that I routinely get a single
> message being split into two different mail groups, giving me a copy
> of the message in each group.  I thought that this list was traversed
> top to bottom and that the first match terminated the search?

  Gnus crossposts messages to all relevant groups by default.  You can
  turn that off by frobbing `nnmail-crosspost' if you wish.  It is also
  possible to split dupes into their own group.  The manual will tell
  you how.

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