On 2/2/2006 7:40 AM, Hongwei Li wrote:
Hi,
I have a question about .procmailrc. Recently, our users received a lot of
junk emails that have the subject like:
Aaa Bbbb Ccc/Xxxx Yyy/Zzzz Dddd/Eeee is out of the office.
I want to set a line in procmailrc to put those emails in folder Trash. I
tried it as:
:0:
* ^Subject:.*.is.out.of.the.office*
$MAILDIR/Trash
But, it does not work -- the mail still does to inbox. I think the problem is
the part "Aaa Bbbb Ccc/Xxxx Yyy/Zzzz Dddd/Eeee", especially the slash /
How to change the code to do the job?
I think the problem is the trailing * when you're trying to match subject.
If I'm reading this correctly you want a subject that matches on"
"is out of the office*"
You're using the dots to accept any single character as a word
separator, but whats the * at the end doing for you?
Don