Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 02:24:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jonathan Walther <> | Subject | Re: LINUX |
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My method, matching the Sender: header or whicher is appropriate to the list, is still superior. It is cleaner and easier to understand, and doesn't depend on mysterious macros. I notice your macro doesn't handle "Sender: " fields.
:0 * ^Sender:.*owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu linux-kernel
Jonathan
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Riley Williams wrote: > > > > # Store linux kernel messages into a different folder. > > > :0: > > > * ^TOlinux-kernel@vger > > > LINUX-KERNEL > > > >As written, that should miss EVERY message. The probable correct > >version thereof would be... > > Nope. That rule has worked for eons. Pay close attention to the > syntax: It uses "TO" and not "To" which is completely different. > > The "TO" is a special procmail macro, and this recipe was > constructed with care from the procmail documentation. > > > Q> * ^TO.*linux-kernel@vger > > > >...but that will only catch emails with linux-kernel in the TO list, > >not those with it in the CC or BCC lists - nor, for that matter, those > >with "To" lines instead of "TO" lines - both regularly occur. OK, you > >can add a set to catch the "To", "CC" and "Cc" versions thereof, but > >not the BCC version... > > No, the "TO" macro catches all of that. You're probably just not > familiar with procmail's special macros. I've used "TOmailinglist" > on several lists with no trouble at all. > > Just so you don't have to hunt through docs, here is the > documentation on the "TO" macro which is from the procmailrc > manpage: > > MISCELLANEOUS > If the regular expression contains `^TO' it will be sub- > stituted by `(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X- > Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^a-zA-Z])?)', which > should catch all destination specifications. > > So you can see, it covers all the cases that you mention, and > many more. It is fantastic for nailing a list down easily. > > Take care! > TTYL > > > -- > Mike A. Harris Linux advocate GNU advocate > Computer Consultant Open Source advocate > > Tea, Earl Grey, Hot... > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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