Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!ginosko!xanth!talos!kjones
From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: vm-auto-folder-alist -- how?
Message-ID: <1989Aug31.134955.3352@talos.uucp>
Date: 31 Aug 89 13:49:55 GMT
References: <8908301406.AA01144@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: kjones%talos.uucp@uunet.uu.net
Distribution: gnu
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Chris Shenton writes:
 > I'm a new vm convert, trying to do the following:
 > 
 > (setq vm-auto-folder-alist 
 >       '(
 >         ("Subject"
 > [...]
 >          ("c++"         . "gnu-emacs-c++")
 > [...]
 >         )

This should be ("c\\+\\+" . "gnu-emacs-c++") to work properly.  You
might want the "c" to be "[Cc]" since the regexp matching of
vm-auto-folder-alist is case sensitive.

 >         ("(From)|(Sender)"
 >          ("steve"       . "steve")
 >          ("chris"       . "chris")
 >         )

There are a number of things wrong with this, but the reason it won't
work is because the HEADER portion of the alist is supposed to be a
literal header name, not a regular expression.  The match always fails
because no header will ever begin a `('.  The incorrect regular
expression syntax has no bearing on the problem.  Use:

          ("From"
           ("steve"       . "steve")
           ("chris"       . "chris")
          )
          ("Sender"
           ("steve"       . "steve")
           ("chris"       . "chris")
          )