On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Earl Hood wrote:
On July 21, 1999 at 12:13, John Stumbles wrote:
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What might be useful would be a way of ANDing and ORing
expressions to match on e.g.
<MsgExcludeFilter>
<!-- implicit OR: exclude if any of following rules matches -->
<FilterRule>
/^Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA/m;
</FilterRule>
[snip]
<!-- implicit AND: this rule matches if both of following
regexps match -->
/^From: \w+\@(aol|hotmail)\.com/im
/^Subject: .*(money|opportunity|your web)/im
</FilterRule>
</MsgExcludeFilter>
Oh, the horrors. Just use Perl:
<MsgExcFilter>
/^Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA/m ||
/^Subject: unsubscribe/im ||
/^Subject: test message/im ||
(/^From: \w+\@(aol|hotmail)\.com/im &&
/^Subject: .*(money|opportunity|your web)/im);
</MsgExcFilter>
Much neater {blush!} :-)
Basically, you have all of Perl to do what you want. You can declare
variables, use loops, require modules, etc. Internally, MHonArc wraps
your code into a function and puts the body of the function (that the
user defines via MsgExcFilter) into a separate package to avoid
conflicts with MHonArc internals. $_ is set to a copy of the message
header, so you can actually modify the $_ in your calculations w/o
affecting the original header.
That _is_ neat!
BTW thanks, not only for MHonArc, but for responding so promptly and
helpfully to [dum[my|b]] users such as me!
--
John Stumbles
j(_dot_)d(_dot_)stumbles(_at_)reading(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk
I.T. Services Centre, University of Reading http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~visstmbl
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