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1 ;;; nnmail.el --- mail support functions for the Gnus mail backends
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1995-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
6 ;; Keywords: news, mail
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23 ;;; Commentary:
25 ;;; Code:
42 "Reading mail with Gnus."
46 "Retrieving new mail."
50 "Preparing (or mangling) new mail after retrieval."
54 "Handling of duplicate mail messages."
58 "Organizing the incoming mail in folders."
62 "Mail files."
67 "Expiring old mail."
71 "Interfacing with procmail and other mail agents."
75 "Various mail options."
79 "Incoming mail will be split according to this variable.
81 If you'd like, for instance, one mail group for mail from the
83 else, you could do something like this:
85 (setq nnmail-split-methods
90 As you can see, this variable is a list of lists, where the first
94 nnmail will try to match on the header to find a fit.
96 The second element can also be a function. In that case, it will be
97 called narrowed to the headers with the first element of the rule as
98 the argument. It should return a non-nil value if it thinks that the
99 mail belongs in that group.
103 This variable can also have a function as its value, and it can
104 also have a fancy split method as its value. See
105 `nnmail-split-fancy' for an explanation of that syntax."
112 ;; Suggested by Erik Selberg <speed@cs.washington.edu>.
114 "If non-nil, do crossposting if several split methods match the mail.
115 If nil, the first match found will be used."
120 "Regexp that matches group names to be ignored when applying `nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent'.
121 This can also be a list of regexps."
129 "Regexp that matches group names to be ignored when inserting message ids into the cache (`nnmail-cache-insert').
130 This can also be a list of regexps."
137 ;; Added by gord@enci.ucalgary.ca (Gordon Matzigkeit).
139 "If non-nil, nnmail will never delete/move a group's last article.
140 It can be marked expirable, so it will be deleted when it is no longer last.
142 You may need to set this variable if other programs are putting
143 new mail into folder numbers that Gnus has marked as expired."
149 "If non-nil the mail backends will use long file and directory names.
156 "Set the mode bits of all new mail files to this integer."
161 "Expirable articles that are older than this will be expired.
162 This variable can either be a number (which will be interpreted as a
163 number of days) -- this doesn't have to be an integer. This variable
164 can also be `immediate' and `never'."
171 "Variable that holds function to specify how old articles should be before they are expired.
172 The function will be called with the name of the group that the expiry
173 is to be performed in, and it should return an integer that says how
175 It can also return the values `never' and `immediate'.
177 E.g.:
179 \(setq nnmail-expiry-wait-function
180 (lambda (newsgroup)
184 (t 7))))"
190 "Variable that says where expired messages should end up.
191 The default value is `delete' (which says to delete the messages),
192 but it can also be a string or a function. If it is a string, expired
193 messages end up in that group. If it is a function, the function is
194 called in a buffer narrowed to the message in question. The function
195 receives one argument, the name of the group the message comes from.
196 The return value should be `delete' or a group name (a string)."
200 function
201 string))
204 "Determine expiry target based on articles using fancy techniques.
207 `nnmail-expiry-target' is set to the function
208 `nnmail-fancy-expiry-target' and HEADER of the article matches REGEXP,
209 the message will be expired to a group determined by invoking
210 `format-time-string' with TARGET used as the format string and the
211 time extracted from the articles' Date header (if missing the current
212 time is used).
214 In the special cases that HEADER is the symbol `to-from', the regexp
215 will try to match against both the From and the To header.
217 Example:
219 \(setq nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets
234 regexp
238 "If non-nil, put Message-IDs of Gcc'd articles into the duplicate cache.
239 If non-nil, also update the cache when copy or move articles."
245 ;; revision 5.29 / p0-85 / Gnus 5.9
246 ;; Variable removed in No Gnus v0.7
249 "If non-nil, re-split incoming procmail sorted mail."
254 "If non-nil, scan all incoming procmail sorted mails once.
255 It scans low-level sorted spools even when not required."
261 "Function called to delete files in some mail backends."
267 'copy-file
269 "Function called to create a copy of a file.
270 This is `add-name-to-file' by default, which means that crossposts
271 will use hard links. If your file system doesn't allow hard
272 links, you could set this variable to `copy-file' instead."
281 nil)
282 "Hook that will be run after the incoming mail has been transferred.
283 The incoming mail is moved from the specified spool file (which normally is
285 directory. This hook is called after the incoming mail box has been
286 emptied, and can be used to call any mail box programs you have
289 E.g.:
292 (lambda ()
295 ;; The incoming mail box file.
296 (expand-file-name (user-login-name)
297 rmail-spool-directory))))
299 If you have xwatch running, this will alert it that mail has been
300 read.
302 If you use `display-time', you could use something like this:
305 (lambda ()
306 ;; Update the displayed time, since that will clear out
307 ;; the flag that says you have mail.
314 "Hook called before treating incoming mail.
315 The hook is run in a buffer with all the new, incoming mail."
320 "Hook called narrowed to the headers of each message.
321 This can be used to remove excessive spaces (and stuff like
322 that) from the headers before splitting and saving the messages."
327 "Hook called narrowed to each message."
332 "Regexp that matches list identifiers to be removed.
333 This can also be a list of regexps."
340 "Hook called just before starting to handle new incoming mail."
345 "Hook called just after finishing handling new incoming mail."
350 "Hook called before deciding where to split an article.
351 The functions in this hook are free to modify the buffer
352 contents in any way they choose -- the buffer contents are
353 discarded after running the split process."
358 "A hook called when a new article is spooled."
364 "The number of articles which indicates a large newsgroup or nil.
365 If the number of articles is greater than the value, verbose
366 messages will be shown to indicate the current status."
372 "Widget for customizing splits in the variable of the same name."
386 function
388 )
392 function
396 regexp symbol)
398 regexp
404 regexp))
405 nnmail-split-fancy)
409 "Incoming mail can be split according to this fancy variable.
410 To enable this, set `nnmail-split-methods' to `nnmail-split-fancy'.
412 The format of this variable is SPLIT, where SPLIT can be one of
413 the following:
415 GROUP: Mail will be stored in GROUP (a string).
417 \(FIELD VALUE [- RESTRICT [- RESTRICT [...]]] SPLIT): If the message
418 field FIELD (a regexp) contains VALUE (a regexp), store the messages
419 as specified by SPLIT. If RESTRICT (a regexp) matches some string
420 after FIELD and before the end of the matched VALUE, return nil,
421 otherwise process SPLIT. Multiple RESTRICTs add up, further
422 restricting the possibility of processing SPLIT.
424 \(| SPLIT...): Process each SPLIT expression until one of them matches.
425 A SPLIT expression is said to match if it will cause the mail
426 message to be stored in one or more groups.
428 \(& SPLIT...): Process each SPLIT expression.
430 \(: FUNCTION optional args): Call FUNCTION with the optional args, in
431 the buffer containing the message headers. The return value FUNCTION
432 should be a split, which is then recursively processed.
434 \(! FUNCTION SPLIT): Call FUNCTION with the result of SPLIT. The
435 return value FUNCTION should be a split, which is then recursively
436 processed.
438 junk: Mail will be deleted. Use with care! Do not submerge in water!
439 Example:
440 (setq nnmail-split-fancy
442 ...other.rules.omitted...))
444 FIELD must match a complete field name. VALUE must match a complete
445 word according to the `nnmail-split-fancy-syntax-table' syntax table.
448 FIELD and VALUE can also be Lisp symbols, in that case they are expanded
449 as specified in `nnmail-split-abbrev-alist'.
454 Example:
457 nnmail-split-fancy
458 ;; Messages from the mailer daemon are not crossposted to any of
459 ;; the ordinary groups. Warnings are put in a separate group
460 ;; from real errors.
463 ;; Non-error messages are crossposted to all relevant
464 ;; groups, but we don't crosspost between the group for the
465 ;; (ding) list and the group for other (ding) related mail.
468 ;; Other mailing lists...
471 ;; Both lists below have the same suffix, so prevent
472 ;; cross-posting to mkpkg.list of messages posted only to
473 ;; the bugs- list, but allow cross-posting when the
474 ;; message was really cross-posted.
477 ;;
478 ;; People...
480 ;; Unmatched mail goes to the catch all group.
493 "Alist of abbreviations allowed in `nnmail-split-fancy'."
498 "The approximate number of Message-IDs nnmail will keep in its cache.
499 If this variable is nil, no checking on duplicate messages will be
500 performed."
507 "The file name of the nnmail Message-ID cache."
513 "If non-nil, nnmail keep a cache of Message-IDs to discover mail duplicates.
514 Three values are valid: nil, which means that nnmail is not to keep a
515 Message-ID cache; `warn', which means that nnmail should insert extra
516 headers to warn the user about the duplication (this is the default);
517 and `delete', which means that nnmail will delete duplicated mails.
519 This variable can also be a function. It will be called from a buffer
520 narrowed to the article in question with the Message-ID as a
521 parameter. It should return nil, `warn' or `delete'."
528 "Extra headers to parse.
529 In addition to the standard headers, these extra headers will be
530 included in NOV headers (and the like) when backends parse headers."
536 "Header lines longer than this limit are excluded from the split function."
542 "Default charset to be used when splitting incoming mail."
548 "Whether the nnmail splitting functionality should MIME decode headers."
554 "Whether to match partial words when fancy splitting.
555 Normally, regexes given in `nnmail-split-fancy' are implicitly surrounded
557 surrounded
558 by anything."
565 This avoids the creation of multiple groups when users send to an address
566 using different case (i.e. mailing-list@domain vs Mailing-List@Domain)."
571 ;;; Internal variables.
581 ;; support the %-hack
583 table)
593 \f
602 mm-text-coding-system
606 "Coding system for file name."
611 "Insert FILE in server buffer safely."
621 t)
625 "Make file name for GROUP."
630 ?. ?_))
632 ;; If this directory exists, we use it directly.
637 ;; If not, we translate dots into slashes.
640 dir))))
644 "Returns an assoc of group names and active ranges.
645 nn*-request-list should have been called before calling this function."
646 ;; Go through all groups from the active list.
651 "Parse the active file in the current buffer and return an alist."
659 group-assoc group max min)
670 group-assoc)))
674 group-assoc))
677 "Coding system for active file."
682 "Save GROUP-ASSOC in ACTIVE-FILE."
690 "Generate an active file from group-alist ALIST."
701 "Find out whether this FILE is to be split into GROUP only.
702 If SOURCE is a directory spec, try to return the group name component."
708 nil)))
709 nil))
714 start message-id content-length do-search end)
724 ;; Skip all the headers in case there are more "From "s...
729 ;; Unquote the ">From " line, if any.
735 ;; Find the Message-ID header.
741 ;; There is no Message-ID here, so we create one.
749 ;; Look for a Content-Length header.
757 ;; We destroy the header, since none of
758 ;; the backends ever use it, and we do not
759 ;; want to confuse other mailers by having
760 ;; a (possibly) faulty header.
773 ;; Go to the beginning of the next article - or to the end
774 ;; of the buffer.
788 count))
791 "Put point at the beginning of the next Unix mbox message."
792 ;; Algorithm used to find the next article in the
793 ;; brain-dead Unix mbox format:
794 ;;
795 ;; 1) Search for "^From ".
796 ;; 2) If we find it, then see whether the previous
797 ;; line is blank and the next line looks like a header.
798 ;; Then it's possible that this is a mail delim, and we use it.
800 found)
820 "Put point at the beginning of the current Unix mbox message."
821 ;; Algorithm used to find the next article in the
822 ;; brain-dead Unix mbox format:
823 ;;
824 ;; 1) Search for "^From ".
825 ;; 2) If we find it, then see whether the previous
826 ;; line is blank and the next line looks like a header.
827 ;; Then it's possible that this is a mail delim, and we use it.
829 found)
851 start message-id content-length end skip head-end)
855 ;; Possibly wrong format?
859 ;; Carry on until the bitter end.
862 end nil)
863 ;; Find the end of the head.
865 start
868 ;; This will never happen, but just to be on the safe side --
869 ;; if there is no head-body delimiter, we search a bit manually.
874 ;; Find the Message-ID header.
882 ;; There is no Message-ID here, so we create one.
885 ;; Look for a Content-Length header.
891 ;; We destroy the header, since none of the backends ever
892 ;; use it, and we do not want to confuse other mailers by
893 ;; having a (possibly) faulty header.
897 ;; Find the end of this article.
901 ;; We try the Content-Length value. The idea: skip over the header
902 ;; separator, then check what happens content-length bytes into the
903 ;; message body. This should be either the end of the buffer, the
904 ;; message separator or a blank line followed by the separator.
905 ;; The blank line should probably be deleted. If neither of the
906 ;; three is met, the content-length header is probably invalid.
921 ;; No Content-Length, so we find the beginning of the next
922 ;; article or the end of the buffer.
926 ;; Allow the backend to save the article.
935 count))
941 start message-id end)
945 ;; Possibly wrong format?
947 ;; Carry on until the bitter end.
950 ;; Find the end of the head.
952 start
955 ;; This will never happen, but just to be on the safe side --
956 ;; if there is no head-body delimiter, we search a bit manually.
961 ;; Find the Message-ID header.
965 ;; There is no Message-ID here, so we create one.
973 ;; Find the end of this article.
979 ;; Allow the backend to save the article.
989 count))
992 ;; In a maildir, every file contains exactly one mail.
994 message-id)
996 ;; Find the end of the head.
1001 ;; This will never happen, but just to be on the safe side --
1002 ;; if there is no head-body delimiter, we search a bit manually.
1007 ;; Find the Message-ID header.
1011 ;; There is no Message-ID here, so we create one.
1019 ;; Allow the backend to save the article.
1030 group artnum-func junk-func)
1031 "Go through the entire INCOMING file and pick out each individual mail.
1032 FUNC will be called with the buffer narrowed to each mail.
1033 INCOMING can also be a buffer object. In that case, the mail
1034 will be copied over from that buffer."
1036 ;; methods to just this group.
1040 nnmail-split-methods))
1042 ;; Insert the incoming file.
1051 0
1054 ;; Handle both babyl, MMDF and unix mail formats, since
1055 ;; movemail will use the former when fetching from a
1056 ;; mailbox, the latter when fetching from a file.
1062 func artnum-func junk-func))
1072 "Look at the headers and return an alist of groups that match.
1073 FUNC will be called with the group name to determine the article number."
1076 group-art method grp)
1080 ;; If there is only just one group to put everything in, we
1081 ;; just return a list with just this one method in.
1084 ;; We do actual comparison.
1085 ;; Copy the article into the work buffer.
1089 ;; Narrow to headers.
1096 ;; Decode MIME headers and charsets.
1100 ;; Fold continuation lines.
1104 ;; Nuke pathologically long headers. Since Gnus applies
1105 ;; pathologically complex regexps to the buffer, lines
1106 ;; that are looong will take longer than the Universe's
1107 ;; existence to process.
1111 nnmail-split-header-length-limit)
1114 ;; Allow washing.
1123 ;; Not a regular split method, so it has to be a
1124 ;; fancy one.
1132 nnmail-split-methods
1136 ;; `nnmail-split-methods' is a function, so we
1137 ;; just call this function here and use the
1138 ;; result.
1148 ;; The article may be "cross-posted" to `junk'. What
1149 ;; to do? Just remove the `junk' spec. Don't really
1150 ;; see anything else to do...
1152 junk-func)
1159 split))))
1160 ;; Go through the split methods to find a match.
1174 nil t)))
1177 pos)
1178 ;; Function to say whether this is a match.
1180 ;; Don't enter the article into the same
1181 ;; group twice.
1184 group-art))
1185 ;; This is the final group, which is used as a
1186 ;; catch-all.
1193 ;; Fall back on "bogus" if all else fails.
1197 ;; Produce a trace if non-empty.
1209 ;; See whether the split methods returned `junk'.
1211 nil
1212 ;; The article may be "cross-posted" to `junk'. What
1213 ;; to do? Just remove the `junk' spec. Don't really
1214 ;; see anything else to do...
1221 "Insert how many lines there are in the body of the mail.
1222 Return the number of characters in the body."
1237 chars)))
1240 "Insert an Xref line based on the (group . article) alist."
1260 ;;; Message washing functions
1263 "Remove excessive whitespace from all headers."
1269 "Remove list identifiers from Subject headers."
1273 nnmail-list-identifiers)))
1278 nil t)
1282 nil t)
1287 "Translate TAB characters into SPACE characters."
1292 "Header line matching mailer producing bogus References lines.
1293 See `nnmail-ignore-broken-references'."
1299 "Ignore the References line and use In-Reply-To
1301 Eudora has a broken References line, but an OK In-Reply-To."
1318 ;;; Utility functions
1324 "Utility function to directly post a message to an nnmail-derived group.
1325 Calls ACCEPT-FUNC (which should be `nnchoke-request-accept-article')
1326 to actually put the message in the right group."
1335 to-newsgroup))
1337 to-newsgroup gnus-command-method)
1339 gnus-command-method))
1346 "Fancy splitting method.
1347 See the documentation for the variable `nnmail-split-fancy' for details."
1352 ;; Alist of split expressions their equivalent regexps.
1355 ;; Return a list of groups matching SPLIT.
1358 ;; nil split
1360 nil)
1362 ;; A group name. Do the \& and \N subs into the string.
1368 ;; Junk the message.
1374 ;; Builtin & operation.
1378 ;; Builtin | operation.
1384 done))
1386 ;; Builtin : operation.
1392 ;; Builtin ! operation.
1396 ;; Check the cache for the regexp for this split.
1399 match-data
1411 ;; The searched regexp is \(\(FIELD\).*\)\(VALUE\).
1412 ;; So, start-of-value is the point just before the
1413 ;; beginning of the value, whereas after-header-name
1414 ;; is the point just after the field name.
1417 ;; Start the next search just before the beginning of the
1418 ;; VALUE match.
1420 ;; Handle - RESTRICTs
1422 ;; RESTRICT must start after-header-name and
1423 ;; end after start-of-value, so that, for
1424 ;; (any "foo" - "x-foo" "foo.list")
1425 ;; we do not exclude foo.list just because
1426 ;; the header is: ``To: x-foo, foo''
1429 after-header-name t)
1435 ;; Someone might want to do a \N sub on this match, so
1436 ;; restore the match data.
1441 split-result))
1443 ;; Not in cache, compute a regexp for the field/value pair.
1448 partial-front
1449 partial-rear
1450 regexp)
1457 ;; Same trick for the rear of the regexp
1462 ;; Invert the match-partial-words behavior if the optional
1463 ;; last element is specified.
1468 nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words)
1474 field)
1478 value
1482 ;; Now that it's in the cache, just call nnmail-split-it again
1483 ;; on the same split, which will find it immediately in the cache.
1489 c expanded beg N did-expand)
1498 ;; We hit a \; expand it.
1505 ;; \ followed by some character we don't expand.
1507 ;; \& or \N
1511 ;; We wrapped the searches in parentheses, so we have to
1512 ;; add some parentheses here...
1520 expanded))))
1524 newtext)))
1526 ;; Activate a backend only if it isn't already activated.
1527 ;; If FORCE, re-read the active file even if the backend is
1528 ;; already activated.
1533 force
1536 backend)))))
1544 backend)))
1554 file-time))
1556 t))
1561 ;;;
1562 ;;; nnmail duplicate handling
1563 ;;;
1583 nnmail-treat-duplicates
1587 ;; Weed out the excess number of Message-IDs.
1593 ;; Save the buffer.
1596 t))
1605 ;; this will handle cases like `B r' where the group is nil
1608 id grp subject sender))
1610 ;; Store some information about the group this message is written
1611 ;; to. This is passed in as the grp argument -- all locations this
1612 ;; has been called from have been checked and the group is available.
1613 ;; The only ambiguous case is nnmail-check-duplication which will only
1614 ;; pass the first (of possibly >1) group which matches. -Josh
1625 nnmail-cache-ignore-groups)))
1644 res))
1646 ;; Fetch the group name corresponding to the message id stored in the
1647 ;; cache.
1659 ;; Function for nnmail-split-fancy: look up all references in the
1660 ;; cache and if a match is found, return that group.
1662 "Split this message into the same group as its parent.
1663 This function can be used as an entry in `nnmail-split-fancy', for
1664 example like this: (: nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent)
1665 For a message to be split, it looks for the parent message in the
1666 References or In-Reply-To header and then looks in the message id
1667 cache file (given by the variable `nnmail-message-id-cache-file') to
1668 see which group that message was put in. This group is returned.
1670 See the Info node `(gnus)Fancy Mail Splitting' for more details."
1678 nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent-ignore-groups
1680 nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent-ignore-groups)))
1690 res)))
1707 ;; If this is a duplicate message, then we do not save it.
1713 nnmail-treat-duplicates)
1717 nnmail-treat-duplicates))))
1718 group-art)
1719 ;; We insert a line that says what the mail source is.
1726 ;; Let the backend save the article (or not).
1731 artnum-func nil junk-func))))
1736 ;; We insert a warning.
1748 ;; Add the group-art list to the history list.
1753 ;;; Get new mail.
1764 "Read new incoming mail."
1768 "Tell us whether the mail-sources specify that `nnmail-get-new-mail' should
1769 be called once per group or once for all groups."
1774 group in-group spool-func)
1776 fetching-sources
1780 source)
1782 sources)
1784 ;; Use group's parameter
1786 group)
1793 group group spool-func))
1795 ;; Hack to only fetch the contents of a single group's spool file.
1798 group)
1802 :predicate
1814 ;; We first activate all the groups.
1816 ;; Allow the user to hook.
1818 ;; Open the message-id cache.
1820 ;; The we go through all the existing mail source specification
1821 ;; and fetch the mail from each.
1826 source
1831 ',spool-func
1834 nil
1843 ;; If we did indeed read any incoming spools, we save all info.
1855 total))
1856 ;; Close the message-id cache.
1858 ;; Allow the user to hook.
1862 "Say whether an article that is TIME old in GROUP should be expired.
1863 If TIME is nil, then return the cutoff time for oldness instead."
1867 t)
1870 nnmail-expiry-wait)))
1873 inhibit))
1874 ;; This isn't an expirable group.
1875 nil)
1877 ;; We expire all articles on sight.
1880 t))
1882 ;; This is an ange-ftp group, and we don't have any dates.
1883 nil)
1886 ;; Compare the time with the current time.
1894 ;; Do not invoke this from nntp-server-buffer! At least nnfolder clears
1895 ;; that buffer if the nnfolder group isn't selected.
1897 ;; Don't enter Message-IDs into cache.
1898 ;; Let users hack it in TARGET function.
1910 "Returns a target expiry group determined by `nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets'."
1927 ;; If the header is to-from then match against the
1928 ;; To or From header
1947 "Check (and modify) the syntax of the message in the current buffer."
1955 "Do a `write-region', and then set the file modes."
1961 ;;;
1962 ;;; Status functions
1963 ;;;
1966 "Make status NAME and VALUE part of the current status line."
1978 "Return a status-value alist from STATUS."
1983 ;; Narrow to the status.
1989 ;; Go through all elements and add them to the list.
1994 ;; Implied "yes".
1999 ;; Implied "no".
2001 ;; Unquoted value.
2004 ;; Quoted value.
2007 status)))
2010 "Return a status string from STATUS."
2021 "Generate an overview of where the last mail split put articles."
2031 elem
2036 "Remove all instances of GROUP from `nnmail-split-history'."
2045 "Say whether GROUP has new mail."
2047 found)
2051 his nil)))
2052 found))
2055 "Check to see if point is within the headers of a unix mail message.
2056 Doesn't change point."
2066 ;;; nnmail.el ends here