Ian,
* On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 01:00PM -0700 Ian Zimmerman ([email protected]) muttered:
> It is not clear from the manual against what the folder-hook command
> matches the given pattern.
folder-hooks use substring matches.
> Let's say my folders are under /home/itz/foobar/ , and /home/itz/Mail is
> a symbolic link to foobar. Let us further assume the following is set
> globally:
>
> set folder=~/Mail
>
> Which of the following will fire when entering /home/itz/foobar/inbox ?
Well, why didn't you just test it?
So /home/itz/Mail -> /home/itz/foobar
and $folder=~/Mail -> /home/itz/Mail
> folder-hook ^inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
^ is a shortcut for the current mailbox. It's not BOL here.
Assume ~/Mail/foo is the current mailbox. Then ^inbox is
/home/itz/Mail/foo/inbox -> no match
> folder-hook ^=inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
= is a shortcut for $folder
/home/itz/Mail/foo/home/itz/Mail/inbox -> no match
> folder-hook Mail/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
/home/itz/Mail/inbox
^^^^^^^^^^ -> match
> folder-hook ~/Mail/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
/home/itz/Mail/inbox
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -> match
> folder-hook foobar/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
/home/itz/foobar/inbox
^^^^^^^^^^^^ -> depends how you open the folder
If you open via ~/Mail it won't match.
> folder-hook ~/foobar/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
/home/itz/foobar/inbox
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -> depends how you open the folder
> folder-hook /home/itz/Mail/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
/home/itz/Mail/inbox -> =inbox, match
> folder-hook /home/itz/foobar/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
/home/itz/foobar/inbox
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -> depends how you open the folder
Your best match is spelling out the complete path, to avoid substring
matches with other folders.
"folder-hook inbox" will match anything with the string "inbox".
~/Mail/inbox
/inbox
~/Mail/myinbox
etc.
Let's ignore the symlink for now.
You want to match /home/itz/Mail/inbox and that is =inbox in short.
folder-hook . "unmy_hdr X-Foo"
folder-hook =inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
> Now assume in addition that inbox is in fact a maildir.
>
> folder-hook ^inbox/ "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar"
See the note about ^ above. You don't need a trailing / with maildir
HTH,
Michael
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