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Re: fh gets fhenry's mail

1996-12-16 02:59:48
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, CaT wrote:

    > tbac(_at_)mail(_dot_)idt(_dot_)net wrote the following:
    > > 
    > > Hi, I have a problem with procmail. I have a field that looks like
    > > * ^TO_fh  for a mailing list. It worked fine until I added a user
    > > fhenry, now mail for fhenry is intercepted by the fh . How can I may 
    > > the first only accept fh and not anything with fh in the first 2 
    > > characters of its name?
    > 
    > Try ^TO_fh[^a-z] as the pattern match if no alphabetical char should
    > follow the username.

Actually, for any name "foo", of any length, the pattern:

    * ^TO_foo\>

is better than

    * ^TO_foo[^a-z]

because the first one succeeds or fails correctly on the following headers, 
where the second one would incorrectly match:

    To: foo
    To: foo123(_at_)some(_dot_)com
    To: foo_bar(_at_)some(_dot_)com
    To: foo(_dot_)bar(_at_)some(_dot_)com

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