Jim --
...and then Jim B said...
% Hi, I just started using Mutt last night, coming from the Pine world. I
Welcome to the real world :-)
...
%
% However, the IMC machine writes a new tracking number into the Subject
Ouch!
...
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% For example, one message may look like this:
%
% Subject: RE: [GeneralService] Word1 Word2 [IMS2000012500000368242002]
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% I will reply to it, then the customer will reply again, and the Subject
% will change to this:
%
% Subject: RE: [GeneralService] Word1 Word2 [IMS2000012500000368262914]
%
% The only thing that changes is the tracking number.
%
% I've tried the following:
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% set reply_regexp = "^(re|aw):[ \t]*[ \t]\[A-Z*0-9*]"
%
% but that apparently doesn't work.
I suppose it's too much to ask your server software maintainer to quit
changing the subject line, eh? :-)
Let's see, here... Your regexp says to match a "re" or "aw" at the
front of the line, a colon, any spaces or tabs, a single space or tab,
an opening bracket, any cap letters, any numbers, and a closing bracket.
Looks like you don't have a match for your actual topic or words parts.
Could you be looking for something more like
"^(re|aw):[ \t]\[A-Za-z*][ \t]([A-Za-z]*[ \t]*)*\[A-Z*0-9*]"
instead, which (we hope) matches a "re" or "aw" at the front, a colon,
a space or tab, an opening bracket, any number of letters, a closing
bracket, a space or tab, any number of (any number of letters and any
number of spaces or tabs), an opening bracket, any number of cap letters,
any number of digits, and a closing bracket (whew!)? That, at least,
should better match your described subject line...
On the other hand, if you simply wanted to match on anything between your
"re|aw" and the actual tracking number, you probably wanted ".*" instead
of "*" between the two white classes -- but I don't think that that will
work for your threading.
Mutt regexp gurus: Is specifying the A-Z necessary if we don't care about
the case? If we do and have to use A-Z, will the re|aw exp match upper
case versions?
%
% Can anyone supply a regexp that should handle this? It would help SO
% much.
%
% Thanks!!
:-D
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