> 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 > The * is a wild char because there are probably other letters after office, e.g. . ] or space etc. I also tried: :0: * ^Subject:.*is out of the office* $MAILDIR/Trash The situation remains the same -- not working. Hongwei
