I'm having problems with $MATCH.
When I get bounced messages on a list (non-member submissions) I
automatically send some message like "Your non-member message bounced and
maybe I'll pass it on to the list for you if I feel like it...".
The bounced message subject procmail sees looks like this:
Subject: BOUNCE: Non-member submission from [user(_at_)roxy(_dot_)sfo(_dot_)com]
So I (try) to extract the email address from this by:
:0c
* $ ^From $SERVER
* $ !^X-Loop: $LOOP_TEXT
* $ ^Subject: BOUNCE $LIST_NAME: Non-member submission from \[\/.*\]
{
SENDER="$MATCH"
(-- rest of recipe sends a message to $SENDER --)
Now, this works *most* of the time, but once in a while the message to
$SENDER bounces back because it picks up the "]" at the end of the email
address in the subject line above:
----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
user(_at_)roxy(_dot_)sfo(_dot_)com] (unrecoverable error)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 user(_at_)roxy(_dot_)sfo(_dot_)com](_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_) Host unknown (Name
server: roxy.sfo.com].: host
not found)
You can see above how $SENDER ended up with the trailing "]" character.
So, why does this only happen once in a while and is there a better way to
extract this email address from the subject line?
Here is another bounced message that worked fine - I'd guess because of the
difference in the email address (">"), but I don't understand why.
Subject: BOUNCE: Non-member submission from [Ed User
<eduser(_at_)scs(_dot_)unr(_dot_)edu>]
I guess what I need to know is there a way to END when match loads the
variable (everything between the "[" and "]" ).
Thanks very much.
Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com