Bodertz <[email protected]> writes: > I wrote a function which can do something useful with the body of an > email. If worse comes to worse, I can run this function manually after > opening the email, but my plan was to use splitting to automate this. > > As documented in "(gnus)Fancy Mail Splitting", splitting based on the > content of the email can be done with nnimap by setting > 'nnimap-split-download-body' to 't'. See the last sentence: > > (: FUNCTION ARG1 ARG2 ...)’ > If the split is a list, and the first element is ‘:’, then the > second element will be called as a function with ARGS given as > arguments. The function should return a SPLIT. > > For instance, the following function could be used to split based > on the body of the messages: > > (defun split-on-body () > (save-excursion > (save-restriction > (widen) > (goto-char (point-min)) > (when (re-search-forward "Some.*string" nil t) > "string.group")))) > > The buffer is narrowed to the header of the message in question > when FUNCTION is run. That’s why ‘(widen)’ needs to be called > after ‘save-excursion’ and ‘save-restriction’ in the example above. > Also note that with the nnimap backend, message bodies will not be > downloaded by default. You need to set > ‘nnimap-split-download-body’ to ‘t’ to do that (*note Client-Side > IMAP Splitting). > > However, this did not seem to work, although I haven't tested > thouroughly. Looking through the git history of Emacs, it seems that > 'nnimap-split-download-body' was removed a little over ten years ago. > An internal variable, 'nnimap-split-download-body-default' is still > present, but is as far as I can tell unused.
I tried looking through the history, too, and that was pretty confusing. It looks like the manual section talking about `nnimap-split-download-body' was added *after* the actual defcustom was removed. I suspect that's an artifact of git history merge, but the current situation is still odd (the manual still refers to `nnimap-split-download-body'). It looks like `nnimap-split-download-body-default' is in fact still used, in `nnimap-fetch-inbox', and setting it to t looks like it should work. Give that a shot? No matter what, there's a mismatch between code and documentation. And if split-download-body-default still has effect, then it should be a defcustom, too. I don't see why there were two separate variables to begin with. Anyway, let me know if setting that variable to t works. Eric _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
