Re: mail-splitting issue

[Al Arduengo <exalNUNYA@austin.rr.com>]

Jochen Küpper <usenet@jochen-kuepper.de> writes:

> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:54:38 GMT Al Arduengo wrote:
>
> Al> Lars Tobias Borsting <larstobi@itea.ntnu.no> writes:
>
>>> I recently set up mail-splitting for my mail. Before this, all mail
>>> ended up in the mail.misc folder in my home directory. After setting up
>>> mail-splitting I got all mail in it's rightful folder, but I stopped
>>> getting mail in mail.misc. As I knew this was not right, I sent some
>>> test mails to my inbox that I knew wouldn't be caught by any of the
>>> filters, and it didn't make it to my gnus mail.
>
> Sorry you lost (potentially important) mail.
>
> How did you learn about mail-splitting and the corresponding
> variable(s)?
>
> Al> A thought I have is that you don't have a default split at the end
> Al> of the list.
>
> I think that is exactly what Lars Tobias said as well (in his own words).
>

Actually he did not say this at all.  Please refer to the paragraph
you quoted above.  My hunch (wrong or right) is that he forgot to add
a default split rule at the tail of the list.

>
> Well, Lars Tobias, in the Gnus manual there is a section on Splitting
> Mail where it tells you exactly about the issue and what to do,
> excerpt given below. What do you think is unclear about that and how
> would you suggest to improve it?
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Splitting Mail") ]
> |    The last of these groups should always be a general one, and the
> | regular expression should _always_ be `*' so that it matches any mails
> | that haven't been matched by any of the other regexps.  (These rules are
> | processed from the beginning of the alist toward the end.  The first
> | rule to make a match will "win", unless you have crossposting enabled.
> | In that case, all matching rules will "win".)
> `----
>
> Greetings,
> Jochen
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