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Re: Why did it miss?

2002-07-30 05:48:57
<p align="Center"><i><font size="-2" color="#ffffff">Under Bill s.1618 TITLE
    III passed by the 105th US Congress this letter cannot be<br>

Here is the recipe which I would have thought would catch the above:

:0B:
* (section|bill).*(1618|301)
/var/mail/junk

Yet, it got through. Am I missing something incredibly obvious?

I'd guess that it is one of those things that is only obvious when you
know it.  My guess is that the mail contains an encoded version of the
text that you quoted and your mail client is decoding it before showing
it to you.  So the mail doesn't actually contain that text, and hence
procmail doesn't catch it.

Of course, there are other possibilities which are better considered if
you provide the section of your verbose procmail log which shows what is
happening when (and if) that recipe is being checked.

Regards,
Martin
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