ok, i knew about man procmailrc, but not man procmailex. after looking at it, i think this would work:
# make a backup :0 c * !^From.*MAILER-DAEMON.*$ \ | !^Subject.*BOUNCE vox.*$ backup better to your eyes? doesn't look as pretty, but it's still not awful. the ".*$" should take care of spaces and comments finding their way into regexes... pete begin: Ted Deppner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:18:38AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > # make a backup > > :0 c > > * ! ^From.*MAILER-DAEMON | # don't backup error msgs > > ! ^Subject.*BOUNCE vox # don't backup bounce msgs > > backup > > > > are lines continued automatically, or do i need an escape character like "\"? > > prolly, but you don't want a regex with all that whitespace. > > > can comments go between conditionals like this? > > dunno for sure, but not really relevant given the last answer. > > > any problems anyone can see with this? > > man procmailex didn't show any snippets anywhere near that style. I > didn't have time to read it in detail, but you might take a peek. I think > the regex interpretation kills this whole style though. -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech