From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei@xxxxxxxxx>
From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei@xxxxxxxxx>
On 2/2/2006 12:10 PM, Hongwei Li wrote:
[snip]
So, the Re: and [Fwd: in the subject line makes the code in procmailrc not
working. Why?
Good question. "It's procmail" comes to mind. It might be this sort of
thing that has people down on procmail.
^Subject:.*:*.*is out of the office
I wonder if that one will work. Zero or more characters, zero or more colons,
another zero or more characters, then the real string.
One thing that comes to mind with Re: and Fwd: is that the actual message
is placed inside mime quoting. So there might be two Subject lines present
and that confuses things.
Thanks for many people's help. I did extensive tests again and here are the
summary.
OS: FC3 (I also tested my FC4 system, the situation is the same), sendmail
8.13.1-2
Part of my .procmailrc related to this problem:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
VERBOSE=off
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
# test1:
:0:
* ^Subject:.*is out of the.*
$MAILDIR/Junk
:0:
* ^Subject:.*DELIVERY FAILURE.*
$MAILDIR/Junk
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ end ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Junk is the "mail folder" under mail/ as Trash -- I tried both, the same.
I use the junk emails received earlier for testing, either reply or forward.
Here are the results.
For the subject line:
DELIVERY FAILURE...
or
Re: DELIVERY FAILURE...
or
[Fwd: DELIVERY FAILURE...
My .procmailrc put the mail in Junk -- working.
For the subject line:
Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office...
The mail goes to Junk -- working normally.
For the subject line:
Re: Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office...
or
[Fwd: Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office...
Try three tests:
Subject:.*is out of
Subject: Re:.*is out of
Subject: \[Fwd:.*is out of
(Make sure the Lotus Notes message really uses a space character between
the colon and its spurious headers.)
{^_^}
