Re: Why asterisks in nnmail-split-fancy rule?

[Svend Tollak Munkejord <stm@bacchus.pvv.org>]

I wrote:

> Today, Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Svend Tollak Munkejord <stm@bacchus.pvv.org> writes:
>>
>>> What is the difference, in nnmail-split-fancy, between
>>>
>>> (from "foo" "mail.foo")
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> (from ".*foo.*" "mail.foo") ?
>>
>> Fancy splitting implicitly adds \\<...\\> around the value.  This
>> means that you can't use "xy@" as the value: because "@" is not a
>> word constituent, a word can never end there, so "xy@\\>" will never
>> match.  That's why you have to use "xy@.*".
>
> OK, but I did not use any "@", only a surname string. I am puzzled,
> because the first rule (without .*) worked on a message from "Peter Foo",
> but not on a message from "Mike Foo", and by staring at the headers of
> those messages, I cannot figure out where this effect comes from.

And I forgot to say that the strange message also really needed the first
".*" in ".*foo.*".

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Svend Tollak Munkejord