On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 21:11 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 10Jan2007 10:12, Matthew Benjamin <msbenjamin12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | Can someone help me? I have a pprocmail receipe that I am trying to filter > | out OOO messages. It works on the second or criteria but not the first here > | is the regexp > | > | *^Subject:.*(out of office|out of the office) > | > | I want this to filter out any of these occurances regardless of case or > | spacing. > > Try making it all lowercase (see the "S"). > Got an example message that got past your rule? > -- According to the man page, procmail egrep ignores case by default (i.e. unless you add a 'D' flag to the rule. You can ignore changes in spacing thus: *^Subject:.*(out +of +office|out +of +the +office) The procmailrc manpage includes a description of the extended regular expression syntax. As Cameron said, though, it'd be easier to troubleshoot if you post an example of a subject line that fails to match... Matt Matt Davey Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills mcdavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx all its pupils - Hector Berlioz