procmail and regular expressions

[Jerry Feldman]

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The ^TO_ does work nicely, but falls down when people use bcc. That is why 
I started to use the subject tags.
Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> > 
> > My condition for that should match is:
> > 	* ^Subject:*\[iPAQ\]
> > 
> > Note that the leading asterisk is a flag to procmail, so the RE passed to 
> > egrep would be:
> > "^Subject:*\[iPAQ\]"
> 
> 
> Jerry,
> 
> Assuming that you've cut and pasted that verbatim, you've got a regular 
> expression that means:  A line that starts with "Subject" followed zero 
> or more ":" characters followed by [iPAQ].
> 
> You need to add a "." in front of the "*".
> 
> On a seperate note, I've generally found it more robust to filter 
> mailing list messages on the To: or Cc: fields (actually, by using the 
> ^TO_ "magical" regular expression in procmail).
> 
> -- Lars
> 

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