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Re: [COPY] Inserting a word into a subject name

1996-01-23 12:52:47
On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Era Eriksson wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:59:07 -0500 (EST),
"Timothy J. Luoma" 
<luomat(_at_)cedman(_dot_)remote(_dot_)Princeton(_dot_)EDU> wrote:
 > *^Subject: *
  :
 > This receipe will match on all subject!  

I don't know about you, but I regularly receive mail from idiots
(pardon, sir) who can't be bothered to think of an appropriate
Subject, and then their mailer removes the empty Subject line.
  I don't know if this is a problem in your situation, but this 
recipe would miss those cases, wouldn't it?

YES!  It would... I thought of that after sending off that message.  And
then a got a message without a subject, to confirm my suspicions! To match
every message, I have changed it to: 

*^From.*

Because I have even gotten messages without 'From:' lines, but never one 
without a 'From ' line....

I don't know how to tell procmail 'match every message that gets to this 
recipe' so I guess there is probably a better way!

TjL

ps -- life would be so much nicer if everyone just used a subject.

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