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changeset 33130:698d567f9976
Explain nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent.
| author | Kai Großjohann <kgrossjo@eu.uu.net> |
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| date | Wed, 01 Nov 2000 21:15:02 +0000 |
| parents | cf1d22a4f549 |
| children | 8d1ed5c84809 |
| files | man/ChangeLog man/gnus.texi |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/ChangeLog Wed Nov 01 19:16:06 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/ChangeLog Wed Nov 01 21:15:02 2000 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2000-11-01 Kai Gro,A_(Bjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> + + * gnus.texi (Fancy Mail Splitting): Explain + `nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent'. + 2000-10-29 Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu> * ediff.texi: Replaced @command with @code & acknowledgements.
--- a/man/gnus.texi Wed Nov 01 19:16:06 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/gnus.texi Wed Nov 01 21:15:02 2000 +0000 @@ -11731,6 +11731,40 @@ up to @samp{\\9} will be substituted with the text matched by the groupings 1 through 9. +@findex nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent +@code{nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent} is a function which allows you to +split followups into the same groups their parents are in. Sometimes +you can't make splitting rules for all your mail. For example, your +boss might send you personal mail regarding different projects you are +working on, and as you can't tell your boss to put a distinguishing +string into the subject line, you have to resort to manually moving the +messages into the right group. With this function, you only have to do +it once per thread. + +To use this feature, you have to set @code{nnmail-treat-duplicates} to a +non-nil value. And then you can include +@code{nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent} using the colon feature, like so: +@lisp +(setq nnmail-split-fancy + '(| (: nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent) + ;; other splits go here + )) +@end lisp + +This feature works as follows: when @code{nnmail-treat-duplicates} is +non-nil, Gnus records the message id of every message it sees in the +file specified by the variable @code{nnmail-message-id-cache-file}, +together with the group it is in (the group is omitted for non-mail +messages). When mail splitting is invoked, the function +@code{nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent} then looks at the References (and +In-Reply-To) header of each message to split and searches the file +specified by @code{nnmail-message-id-cache-file} for the message ids. +When it has found a parent, it returns the corresponding group name. It +is recommended that you set @code{nnmail-message-id-cache-length} to a +somewhat higher number than the default so that the message ids are +still in the cache. (A value of 5000 appears to create a file some +300 kBytes in size.) + @node Group Mail Splitting @subsection Group Mail Splitting