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Re: Re: procmail statement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zoki)
Mon Nov 23 18:01:03 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:01:50 +0100 (CET)
From: Zoki <zokiphoto@magic.fr>
To: Red Hat Users List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981123202424.D3386@adbvdesign.analog.com>
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) wrote:
->Zoki writes:
->> What I understand from all the replies is that the following statement in
->> .procmailrc:
->>
->> ->* ^Subject: +test
->>
->> would filter a Subject saying "test" but *not* "testimony".
->
->To the best of my knowledge: Wrong. The shortest possible match is taken (or
->was it the longest?) Anyway, testimony is matched as well.
->I just tried this rule:
->
->* ^Subject:.*TRi-spamtest
->
->with a subject "TRi-spamtest xxx" and it matched.
->
->If you want to be sure only "test" is matched, you'd have to use:
->
->* ^Subject: +test$
->
->$ stands for end of line, so this rule would match the word test with one or
->more spaces in front of it and nothing after it.
->
->> BTW, shouldn't it be "test+" instead of "+test"? Man procmailrc shows the
->> "+" after the word.
->
->No. The + is related to the space in front of it (hence " test" is
->valid). test+ would filter "test", "testt", "testtt", ...
->The + means "one or more of the characters/expressions in front of the +".
->See e.g. man procmailrc for more.
*** Thanks Thomas,
What I did is follow your advice by putting
* ^Subscribe: +test$
in .procmailrc which should do the trick.
Cheers,
Zoki.
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