| > | Also, I don't think my formail has a -z option (unless it's undocumented)
| > | I have an unknown version of formail and it doesn't have a man page, but
| > | typing formail -h brings up a list of options and -z isn't there....
| > You can still get around it:
|
| It would seem I don't need too... I tried it out, and it works fine..
Procmail might be stripping leading and trailing whitespace in assigning the
variable.
| > | > :0 # twenty-five dots
| > | > * NAME ?? ^^\/..........................
| > | > { NAME=$MATCH }
| > | I don't like the idea of using the dots.... what if the variable is less
| > | than 25 what happens??? and if it's null??
| > If $NAME is null, unset, or shorter than twenty-five characters, then the
| > condition doesn't match, so the code in the braces is skipped, and $NAME is
| > left at its previous value, exactly as you want.
| Alright, this worked as well, just you had one too many dots because
| '1234567890123456789012345thisisextra' was truncated to:
| '1234567890123456789012345t', but I'll fix that...
Yup, so I did. Sorry.
| but perhaps you can
| answer me this.. how do I trim ANY whitespace from the beginning OR end of
| $NAME?
Well, ...
:0
* NAME ?? \\/[^ ].*[^ ]
{ NAME=$MATCH }
where the two sets of brackets each enclose a caret, a space, and a tab.
Remember that to the right of the extraction operator procmail looks for
the *longest* possible match. You need the extra backslash to protect
the first one; otherwise an initial backslash would just escape the fore-
slash instead of forming an extraction operator.
| ... have you seen my other post yet about getting the 'coc subscribe'
| request from EITHER the body or subject?? how would I go about that?
You required it at the beginning of the line if it's in the body, so
something like this would work:
:0
* 2147483647^0 ^Subject: coc subscribe
* 1^0 B ?? ^coc subscribe
{ actions on success }
It may be easier to write this way:
:0
* ! ^Subject: coc subscribe
* ! B ?? ^coc subscribe
{ }
:0E
{ actions on success }
To be thoroughly vicious, one can do this, but it is hard to proofread and
maintain:
:0HB
* ^^(.+$)*(Subject: |$(.*$)*)coc subscribe
{ actions on success }