;; GNU Emacs and this file "rmail-kill.el", is distributed in the hope ;; that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or ;; distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences ;; of using it or for whether it serves any particular purpose or ;; works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer to the GNU Emacs ;; General Public License for full details. ;; Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute GNU ;; Emacs and rmail-kill.el, but only under the conditions described in ;; the GNU Emacs General Public License. A copy of this license is ;; supposed to have been given to you along with GNU Emacs so you can ;; know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a file ;; named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice and this ;; notice must be preserved on all copies. (setq rmail-message-filter 'rmail-maybe-execute-message rmail-mode-hook '((lambda () (define-key rmail-mode-map "e" 'rmail-extract-rejected-message) (define-key rmail-mode-map "b" 'rmail-beginning-of-message) (define-key rmail-mode-map "K" 'rmail-execute-messages)))) ;; a-list with each entry (rmail-field-name . pattern) (defvar rmail-usual-suspects '(("subject" . "Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory") ("subject" . "MGR, Bellcore window manager, Part")) "An alist used to kill rmail messages based on regex matches to different fields. The car of each entry is the name of a mail header, the cdr is a pattern. Case is not significant.) See also the documentation for rmail-maybe-execute-message and rmail-execute-messages.") (setq kill-emacs-hook 'maybe-book-some-suspects) (defun maybe-book-some-suspects () (save-window-excursion (find-file "~/.emacs") (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward "^(defvar rmail-usual-suspects$") (down-list 1) (backward-char 1) (if (not (equal rmail-usual-suspects (save-excursion (read (current-buffer))))) (progn (switch-to-buffer-other-window "SUSPECTS") (erase-buffer) (mapcar '(lambda (x) (print x (current-buffer))) rmail-usual-suspects) (set-buffer-modified-p nil) (if (y-or-n-p "Save the usual suspects? ") (progn (set-buffer ".emacs") (kill-sexp 1) (prin1 rmail-usual-suspects (get-buffer ".emacs")) (save-buffer))))))) (defun rmail-maybe-execute-message (&optional suspects dont-move) "Kill the current message if it matches an entry in SUSPECTS. SUSPECTS is alist of the form of rmail-usual-suspects (which see). If the current message contains a mail header that matches pattern, it is deleted. This function can be used as a rmail-message-filter (which see)." (if (null suspects) (setq suspects rmail-usual-suspects)) (while suspects (if (and (string-match (cdr (car suspects)) ;; if not such field, can never match (or (mail-fetch-field (car (car suspects))) "$^")) (not (rmail-message-deleted-p rmail-current-message))) (progn (message "Deleted message %d" rmail-current-message) (if dont-move (rmail-delete-message) (rmail-delete-forward)) (setq suspects nil)) (setq suspects (cdr suspects))))) (defun rmail-execute-messages (round-up-the-usual-suspects) "Kill some rmail messages based on regex matches to a kill-alist. With a prefix arg, use rmail-usual-suspects as the kill-alist, otherwise prompt for a field name." (interactive "P") (let ((scene-of-the-crime rmail-current-message) (alleged-perpetrator) (cuffed-all-suspects nil)) (if round-up-the-usual-suspects (setq alleged-perpetrator rmail-usual-suspects) (let* ((weapon (rmail-get-current-header "Kill what field? (default Subject) " "Subject")) (default-description (or (regexp-quote (mail-fetch-field weapon)) "some regex")) (most-wanted-notice (format "Kill messages having a \"%s\" field matching? (default %s) " weapon default-description)) (suspect-description (read-string-with-default most-wanted-notice default-description))) (setq alleged-perpetrator (list (cons weapon suspect-description))) (if (y-or-n-p "Add it to rmail-usual-suspects? ") (setq rmail-usual-suspects (append alleged-perpetrator rmail-usual-suspects))))) (while (not cuffed-all-suspects) (rmail-maybe-execute-message alleged-perpetrator 'dont-move) ;; ;; rmail-next-undeleted-message returns a string when there are no more, but ;; we also want a chance to delete that last message... ;; (if (stringp alleged-perpetrator) (setq cuffed-all-suspects t) (setq cuffed-all-suspects (rmail-next-undeleted-message 1)))) (rmail-show-message scene-of-the-crime) (if (rmail-message-deleted-p rmail-current-message) (rmail-next-undeleted-message 1)) (if (rmail-message-deleted-p rmail-current-message) (rmail-previous-undeleted-message 1)))) (defun rmail-get-current-header (prompt default) (save-excursion (let* ((end (progn (end-of-line) (point)))) (beginning-of-line) (if (re-search-forward "^\\([^ \t]*\\):" end t) (buffer-substring (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) (read-string-with-default prompt default))))) (defun read-string-with-default (prompt default) (let ((s (read-string prompt))) (if (string= s "") default s)))