procmail and regular expressions

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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I normally recommend to some lists that people use bcc rather than expose 
10 or so addresses, which is why I filter on other than the to/cc lines. 
But, using the List-id: field does work fine.
Derek Atkins wrote:
> I file all 'bcc's into a no-mans-land folder -- if someone doesn't
> want people to know how I received their message, then it can
> well wait until I get to it.
> 
> Considering many mailing list managers add info like X-Sent-To or
> other headers, I find that even BCC'd messages usually get filtered
> properly.  Then again I use GNUS, so perhaps it does a better job
> of filtering than procmail.
> 
> -derek
> 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:
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> > The ^TO_ does work nicely, but falls down when people use bcc. That is why 
> > I started to use the subject tags.
> > Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > My condition for that should match is:
> > > > 	* ^Subject:*\[iPAQ\]
> > > > 
> > > > Note that the leading asterisk is a flag to procmail, so the RE passed 
> to 
> > > > egrep would be:
> > > > "^Subject:*\[iPAQ\]"
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Jerry,
> > > 
> > > Assuming that you've cut and pasted that verbatim, you've got a regular 
> > > expression that means:  A line that starts with "Subject" followed zero 
> > > or more ":" characters followed by [iPAQ].
> > > 
> > > You need to add a "." in front of the "*".
> > > 
> > > On a seperate note, I've generally found it more robust to filter 
> > > mailing list messages on the To: or Cc: fields (actually, by using the 
> > > ^TO_ "magical" regular expression in procmail).
> > > 
> > > -- Lars
> > > 
> > 
> > - -- 
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix user group
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>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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