Rob -- ...and then Rob Reid said... % % Hi,
Hello! % % At 1:24 PM EDT on April 23 David T-G sent off: ... % > > So how can I do three levels of quoting? Is it possible, and is there a % > > way I can avoid it? % > % > Rather than just escaping your single quotes because you're using single % > quotes already, you have to escape them "deeply" enough. Starting from ... % > push "D~b '^SPAM...'" % > % > to make it work (though that part is untested). % % :-P Always test! I had already tried that, and it doesn't work even though it Ah; you didn't say that part. So how on earth do you get D"~b 'pat'" to work when that breaks for me? I think your double quotes are getting eaten and you're not realizing it. % should. Of course, testing is a pain since it means restarting mutt to undo % the bad folder-hooks. Well, that's easy, since I can always pop open another window and run mutt as many times as necessary. The real pain is developing a mailbox where your pattern will work so that I can do the testing; I'm not yet using SA :-) % % > Meanwhile, generally the way to escape embedded quotes is to not just % > escape the quote but also escape your escape char, since the first pass % > over the line (the folder-hook level) will not only remove the outer set % > of quotes (doubles above) but also take literally any escaped characters % > and get rid of your escaping -- but that's usually too early! It can be % % It was an escaping problem, although I thought I'd tried that with \\! But % noooo! The second \ needs to be escaped so it has to be \\\\! The working % hook: % % folder-hook spam push 'D"~b \"^^SPAM: Hit\\\\! \\\\(1 point\\\\) BODY: Image tag with an ID code to identify you\"\n"' Now that is *strange*. I expected (2^^n)-1 backslashes like ! \! \\\! \\\\\\\! and certainly not an even number. When you have \\! you're escaping your escape but not protecting the bang. Oh, wait; since you're quoting your pattern (which must be working, because you don't have to escape the spaces or fill them with dots [which I find much easier to manage]) the bang and parens are protected, so this really is all about the backslashes. So *now* I wonder why they're necessary at all. It sounds like a layer of quoting is disappearing that would make them special chars, but then that doesn't make sense for the spaces. Gah! % % Note the different escaping method for ^. Yeah; why? Unless it's because of my theory that your outermost double quotes are going away... % % Hopefully some other SpamAssassin users will find this helpful. Hey, if it works then it's helpful :-) % % -- % Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without % knowledge, of things without parallel. - A. Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary % Robert I. Reid | PGP/GPG Keys: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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