[100425] in RedHat Linux List
Re: procmail statement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Hardin)
Fri Nov 20 13:20:00 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:03:48 -0800 (PST)
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@wolfenet.com>
To: Red Hat Users List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981120171255.A16672@adbvdesign.analog.com>
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) wrote:
> > 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... :-}
His original request specifically excluded phrases.
> > 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.
D'oh!
I don't know *where* that brain fart came from...
<volley>
You forgot the colon.
* ^Subject: +test
</volley>
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