help with "nnmail-split-methods", please.

help with "nnmail-split-methods", please.

[Xingang Zhang]

Hello there,

I am a newbie of gnus and emacs. Please pardon my ignorance. I have
installed emacs23 with gnus 5.11 and everything went smooth. The only
question I have now is to automatically split my incoming mail with
rules defined with "nnmail-split-methods". I tried to follow some
examples posted on line and the manual. But, owing to my poor
knowledge of LISP, I cannot understand well what's the format to
specify the rule.

Say, for example, If I would like to split all the incoming mails
which address is *either* "ab_foo_cd@xxx.com" *or* "foo23@xxxx.edu" to
my "mail.buddy" folder, how should I implement it with
nnmail-split-methods? Any input is very welcome. Please comment a lot
if possible. :) Thanks.


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Re: help with "nnmail-split-methods", please.

[Tassilo Horn]

Xingang Zhang <zhang.xingang@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Xingang,

> Say, for example, If I would like to split all the incoming mails
> which address is *either* "ab_foo_cd@xxx.com" *or* "foo23@xxxx.edu" to
> my "mail.buddy" folder, how should I implement it with
> nnmail-split-methods? Any input is very welcome. Please comment a lot
> if possible. :) Thanks.

(setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy
      nnmail-split-fancy
      ;; Messages from the mailer daemon are not crossposted to any of
      ;; the ordinary groups.  Warnings are put in a separate group
      ;; from real errors.
      '(| ;; Try all alternatives till one matches
        ;; Split foo23@xxxx.edu into mail.buddy
        (from "foo23@xxxx.edu"    "mail.buddy")
        ;; Split ab_foo_cd@xxxx.com into mail.buddy, too.
        (from "ab_foo_cd@xxx.com" "mail.buddy")
        ;; Unmatched mail goes to the catch all group.
        "misc.misc"))

Have a look at (info "(gnus)Fancy Mail Splitting").

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
          "Emacs is not a development tool but a way of life."
                - David Kastrup in alt.religion.emacs -

Re: help with "nnmail-split-methods", please.

[Johan Bockgård]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Xingang Zhang <zhang.xingang@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Please comment a lot if possible. :) Thanks.
>
> (setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy
>       nnmail-split-fancy
>       ;; Messages from the mailer daemon are not crossposted to any of
>       ;; the ordinary groups.  Warnings are put in a separate group
>       ;; from real errors.

But please still make the comments correspond to the code. :) Thanks.

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Johan Bockgård