[MlMt] Initial questions on mailmate

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 13 Jan 2014, at 0:33, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:

>> I tried using:
>
> [...]
>
> ${subject/.*JBIDE-(.*)\)/JBIDE-$1/}
>
> ...but then I realised it won't use the output of the regular 
> expression to group with so
> I get multiple duplicate subjects listed anyways ;/
>
> Any way to use regular expression in the grouping or would that be too 
> slow/ineffective?

No, the current implementation only allows simple header elements. It 
would be slower, but technically I don't think there are any problems 
with allowing a format string. It would also allow the use of multiple 
headers to take part in the partitioning. It would require a GUI change 
though or it would be a low-level-only feature.

But I'm not sure it's the right way to do this. A more general feature 
would be to allow the definition of a virtual header to be based on a 
format string. This would make your header “transformation” 
available everywhere in the GUI. Maybe such definitions could also be 
part of bundles, e.g., you could have a “JBIDE” bundle (whatever 
JBIDE is) which provides this virtual header automatically. It's harder 
to implement though (but somewhat similar to, e.g., the virtual 
“Mailer” header). Note that I'm just thinking out loud here -- not 
making any promises :-)

-- 
Benny
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