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Re: procmail statement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Fri Nov 20 12:16:37 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:12:55 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981120085225.2043D-100000@gypsy.rubyriver.com>; from John D. Hardin on Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 08:55:51AM -0800
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John D. Hardin writes:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) wrote:
> > An alternative way for writing that line would be:
> >
> > * ^Subject:.*[tT][eE][sS][tT]
> >
> > That'll definitely match all possible combinations of upper and lower case.
>
> Procmail REs are not case-sensitive, and that will match phrases as well.
D'oh! Yep, I overlooked that ":0D:" at the beginning of my case sensitive
receipe... You're right, of course - as per default, procmail is case
insensitive. WRT phrases - I thought Zoki might want that... :-}
> Try this:
>
> * ^Subject: *test
> -----------^^ two spaces
>
> Which means:
> Match "Subject: " at the beginning of the line,
> followed by zero or more extra spaces
> followed by "test"
[...]
> NB: It's a damn shame that Procmail's RE parser doesn't understand \s
> or + at this time.
?? According to man page (man procmailrc), this should work as well:
* ^Subject +test
<quote source="procmailrc man page">
Extended regular expressions
The following tokens are known to both the procmail internal
egrep and the standard egrep(1) (beware that some egrep
implementations include other non-standard extensions):
[...]
a* Any sequence of zero or more a's.
a+ Any sequence of one or more a's.
[...]
</quote>
...and I do indeed have working receipes which rely on the +.
Regards,
Thomas
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