On 9/7/2010 5:50 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Sep 6 12:46:59 2010
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:46:47 -0700
From: Drew Tomlinson<d...@mykitchentable.net>
To: per...@pluto.rain.com
Cc: fr...@shute.org.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Regex Help For Procmail
On 9/5/2010 4:02 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Frank Shute<fr...@shute.org.uk> wrote:
Drew, try this:
* ^From:.*famous-smoke\.com
I think it's not catching it because the period isn't backslash
escaped ...
Unless there's some edge case that I'm not thinking of, adding a
backslash to escape a period will never convert a non-match into
a match. An unescaped period in an RE matches any character,
including a period. An escaped period matches only a period.
I have confirmed this. I did add the backslash but procmail is still
not matching.
Adding the backslash _does_ better represent what the OP wants
to accomplish, but the lack of it is not the cause of the RE not
matching. (I'm not sufficiently familiar with how procmail uses
REs to figure out what _is_ causing it not to match.)
True and thus I'll leave the backslash. However I have no idea what
_is_ causing it not to match either. I'm stumped.
Chances are you're 'over-specifying' what you want. take off the trailing
$, and maybe even the '>'
There's _something_ in the header that is not what you 'think' it is,
which is what is causing the problem. the difficulty is -finding- what
that 'something' is.
From whatever file procmail is dumping that message into, try using a
minimal text editor (something that is *NOT* language/charset aware,
delete everything _but_ that 'From: ' line, and then use that as input
to 'od -xc' to see _exactly_ what's there.
Here is that output:
blacklamb> od -xc x
0000000 7246 6d6f 203a 4622 6d61 756f 2073 6d53
F r o m : " F a m o u s S m
0000020 6b6f 2065 6853 706f 2022 413c 6e6e 756f
o k e S h o p " < A n n o u
0000040 636e 4065 6d65 6961 2e6c 6166 6f6d 7375
n c e @ e m a i l . f a m o u s
0000060 732d 6f6d 656b 632e 6d6f 0a3e
- s m o k e . c o m > \n
And this procmail recipe does *not* match:
# Deliver other email to folder
:0
* ^From:.*famous-smoke\.com
"${HOME}/Maildir/.Shopping/Famous Smoke/Email/"
Do you see anything I'm missing?
Thanks,
Drew
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