Re: mail-splitting issue

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Mon, Apr 12 2004, Lars Tobias Borsting wrote:

> About improving the manual; perhaps make the text about the general rule
> stand out more, so that everyone must see it, even those who just skim the
> text for some quick documentation. Like me... ;-) An especially point
> out that if the general rule isn't present, the mail will vanish. Maybe
> I should give Lars Magne a hint about this.

According to your headers, you are using a very old version of Gnus
(5.6.45).  I'd suggest to upgrade to Gnus 5.10.6.  And I think that
the manual in 5.10.6 is quite clear about this, WDYT?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Splitting Mail") ]
| 6.3.3 Splitting Mail
| 
| The `nnmail-split-methods' variable says how the incoming mail is to be
| split into groups.
| 
|      (setq nnmail-split-methods
|        '(("mail.junk" "^From:.*Lars Ingebrigtsen")
|          ("mail.crazy" "^Subject:.*die\\|^Organization:.*flabby")
|          ("mail.other" "")))
| 
|    This variable is a list of lists, where the first element of each of
| these lists is the name of the mail group (they do not have to be called
| something beginning with `mail', by the way), and the second element is
| a regular expression used on the header of each mail to determine if it
| belongs in this mail group.  The first string may contain `\\1' forms,
| like the ones used by `replace-match' to insert sub-expressions from
| the matched text.  For instance:
| 
|      ("list.\\1" "From:.* \\(.*\\)-list@majordomo.com")
| 
|    The second element can also be a function.  In that case, it will be
| called narrowed to the headers with the first element of the rule as the
| argument.  It should return a non-`nil' value if it thinks that the
| mail belongs in that group.
| 
|    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".)
`----

> Another approach is that the mail-spliting function could be modified
> check if there is such a general rule and if not, ask whether general
> mail should go up in to thin air.

This has already be done in Gnus 5.10.6, AFAICS:

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| 2003-10-17  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
| [...]
| 	* nnmail.el (nnmail-article-group): Default to "bogus".
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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