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From: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
To: Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus splitting question
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 06:15:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <868sa9dd7v.fsf@x201.butler.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2a6uq9h9i.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (Pankaj Jangid's message of "Mon, 07 Dec 2020 13:31:29 +0530")

Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:

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> If I split using a variable (`my-split-list' below), it creates a group
> mail.misc on the IMAP server and rest of the emails end up in this.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defvar my-split-list
>   '(("cron" "^From:.*Cron Daemon")
>     ("cron" "^from: OSSEC HIDS <ossecm@app1>")
>     ("cron" "^from: OSSEC HIDS <ossecm@app2>")
>     ("cron" "^from: OSSEC HIDS <ossecm@app3>")
>     ("cron" "^from: OSSEC HIDS <ossecm@db1>")))
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> 	     '(nnimap "otp"
> 		      (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
> 		      (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
> 		      (nnimap-expunge immediately)
> 		      (nnimap-split-methods my-split-list)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> But if I put the split rules inline, like the one below, rest of the
> emails remain in INBOX.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> 	     '(nnimap "otp"
> 		      (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
> 		      (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
> 		      (nnimap-expunge immediately)
> 		      (nnimap-split-methods
>                         (("cron" "^From:.*Cron Daemon")
>                          ("cron" "^from: OSSEC HIDS <ossecm@app1>") 
>                          ("cron" "^from: OSSEC HIDS <ossecm@app2>")
>                          ("cron" "^from: OSSEC HIDS <ossecm@app3>")
>                          ("cron" "^from: OSSEC HIDS <ossecm@db1>")))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Why this difference in behaviour?

Quoting. With '(...), everything inside the form evaluates to itself,
which is not what you want.

You want to use backtick quote `(...) and insert the value of
my-split-list using the comma ,my-split-list :

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
	     `(nnimap "otp"
		      (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
		      (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
		      (nnimap-expunge immediately)
		      (nnimap-split-methods ,my-split-list)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


Leo



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-07  8:01 Gnus splitting question Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-07 12:15 ` Leo Butler [this message]
2020-12-07 14:10   ` Pankaj Jangid

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