[comp.emacs] Having trouble filtering out headers in GNU rmail mode

djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) (11/16/89)

I'm trying to set the list of mail headers that GNU emacs rmail mode won't
display.  It involves the variable rmail-ignored-headers, but I can't
figure out how to set it.  Putting a line like the one below in my ~/.emacs
doesn't have any effect.  Can someone tell me what's wrong?  (I also tried
defconst and defvar with a documentation string at the end, and they
didn't have any effect either.)

(setq rmail-ignored-headers "^via:\\|^mail-from:\\|^origin:\\|^status:\\|^received:\\|^message-id:\\|^summary-line:\\|^return-path:\\|sender:\\|reply-to:")

The default value of the variable is being used, because using
the 't' command in rmail mode reveals that "received-by:" lines are
being filtered out.  But the ones I added to the end of my string (like
"reply-to:") are not.

This is in GNU emacs 18.54 on SunOS 4.0.
--
David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu>

djm@mojo.UUCP ("David J. MacKenzie") (11/16/89)

I'm trying to set the list of mail headers that GNU emacs rmail mode won't
display.  It involves the variable rmail-ignored-headers, but I can't
figure out how to set it.  Putting a line like the one below in my ~/.emacs
doesn't have any effect.  Can someone tell me what's wrong?  (I also tried
defconst and defvar with a documentation string at the end, and they
didn't have any effect either.)

(setq rmail-ignored-headers
 "^via:\\|^mail-from:\\|^origin:\\|^status:\\|^received:\\|^message-id:\\|^summa
ry-line:\\|^return-path:\\|sender:\\|reply-to:")

The default value of the variable is being used, because using
the 't' command in rmail mode reveals that "received-by:" lines are
being filtered out.  But the ones I added to the end of my string (like
"reply-to:") are not.

This is in GNU emacs 18.54 on SunOS 4.0.
--
David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu>