scoring emails based on the To and Cc headers

[Mark Longair]

(I originally asked this at unix.stackexchange.com but someone suggested
to me that it would be more sensible to ask in this group.)

I use Gnus v5.13 in GNU Emacs 24.1.1 to read my email, and I'm having
trouble getting a simple score file to work. Essentially, I want any
mail that's sent to (or copies) a particular email address to be given
a higher score. My example score file, in ~/Mail/all.SCORE is:

(("from"
("Mark Longair" 1000))
("To"
("mark-sco...@example.org" 1000)))

I'm making sure that that score file is being used by having added the following to my ~/.gnus file:

(setq gnus-global-score-files
'("~/Mail/all.SCORE"))

This does seem to work properly for the rule that matches the From
line - matching messages are highlighted, and when I type V S in the
summary buffer, it shows a score of 1000 for those messages. However,
the "To" rule doesn't match. I've seen in the documentation here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Score-File-Format.html

... that "Scoring can only be performed on these eight headers: From,
Subject, References, Message-ID, Xref, Lines, Chars and Date", but
here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Scoring-On-Other-Headers.html

... says that one can get around this limitation by adding the following
to .gnus:

(setq gnus-extra-headers '(To Cc Newsgroups Keywords)
nnmail-extra-headers gnus-extra-headers)

... and then restarting Gnus and running M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases.

I've tried that (with just To and Cc), but the rule for the "To" line
still isn't working, even if I type V R to rescore the articles in my
summary buffer.

Could any possibly suggest how to get this to work?

Many thanks,
Mark

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mark Longair <mark-...@longair.net> writes:

> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Scoring-On-Other-Headers.html
>
> ... says that one can get around this limitation by adding the following
> to .gnus:

But you still have to score on "extra" headers. Try doing the command
at the end of that section of the manual and see what scoring rule it
generates.

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