Re: beginner splitting mail (respooling)

[Steven Arntson]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:
>
>> I put point on a message in
>> nnfolder+archive:sent.2014-03, and typed B r. I was
>> asked what backend to use, and I chose nnml. The
>> respooling happened, but the message ended up in
>> nnml:mail.misc and not nnml:mail.sent. How do I go
>> about routing it to the right endpoint?
>
> Try to split mails from you to that group. If it works,
> after respooling, you can drop it as the mails should
> go there anyway because of this line:
>
> (setq gnus-message-archive-group '("nnml:mail.sent") )
>
> That is, in my case:
>
> (setq nnmail-split-methods
>  '(("mail.sent" "^From: Emanuel Berg")
>    ; ...
>    ("mail.misc" "") ))
>
> I suspect there is another, perhaps better way, but
> what I can see that should work. (You might have to use
> a more complicated regexp instead of just your name
> depending on how consistent that header is.)
>
> By the way, if you don't know about it, `B q' can be
> more practical while testing - it just says where the
> message would go, without actually moving it.

Finally, this thread came back around to mail splitting! :) I tried
this, and it worked perfectly. I quickly resorted all the mail with C-u
C-u (# of messages in the group) B r.

My gnus has never looked so tidy!
Thanks so much for all of your help here.

Best!
steven