From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3701 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Al Arduengo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: mail-splitting issue Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:52:03 GMT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Message-ID: <87zn9h2nze.fsf@exal.austin.rr.com> References: <8jfk70l1e1q.fsf@kamel.stud.ntnu.no> <874qrp457j.fsf@exal.austin.rr.com> <86n05hgrjj.fsf@doze.rz-berlin.mpg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669724 19952 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:08:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:37 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!amsnews01.chello.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!cyclone.southeast.rr.com!cyclone.tampabay.rr.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!fe2.texas.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pCyScgUjP596s3lxlPCxdpv4dkY= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.68.140.226 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: fe2.texas.rr.com 1081785123 66.68.140.226 (Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:52:03 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:52:03 CDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3842 Original-Lines: 53 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3842 Tue Jan 17 17:32:37 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3701 Archived-At: Jochen Küpper writes: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:54:38 GMT Al Arduengo wrote: > > Al> Lars Tobias Borsting 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 > -- > Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit http://www.Jochen-Kuepper.de > Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité GnuPG key: CC1B0B4D > (Part 3 you find in my messages before fall 2003.) -- remove NUNYA to email me ~/.signature