procmail and regular expressions

[Derek Atkins]

I file all 'bcc's into a no-mans-land folder -- if someone doesn't
want people to know how I received their message, then it can
well wait until I get to it.

Considering many mailing list managers add info like X-Sent-To or
other headers, I find that even BCC'd messages usually get filtered
properly.  Then again I use GNUS, so perhaps it does a better job
of filtering than procmail.

-derek

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

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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
> > 
> 
> - -- 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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