> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:31, Hongwei Li wrote: >> > >> > Procmail does not recognize the notation [[:space:]] as representing any >> > whitespace character, so the only solution I found is to replace each >> space >> > character with "[ ]+" (without the quotes, of course, and the brackets >> > actually contain just two characters, <SPACE> and <TAB>). That makes the >> > matcher work correctly regardless of how the line gets split. Yes, it >> looks >> >like a mess, but I couldn't find anything else that works 100%. > > Once >> the subject line is wrapped, it adds extra char(s) in between "of" and >> "the", >> then it does not match. So, I tried: >> >> * ^Subject:.*is.*out.*of.*the >> >> then, it works for all cases. But, it seems that it is not always safe. It >> may filter some normal emails? > > I think you missed the answer in the message you were responding to. > * ^Subject:.*is[ ]+out[ ]+of[ ]+the > should be the correct approach, with each of the []'s enclosing one > space and one tab character. The [ ]+ expression means match one > or more (any number more) of the characters enclosed, so there has > to be one space and it won't matter if more or tabs are introduced > by the header wrap/indent. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > I revised the procmailrc line, and it is working well now. Gret thanks to you and all other people! Hongwei
