"James V. Di Toro III" <karrde(_at_)gats(_dot_)hampton(_dot_)va(_dot_)us>
writes:
I'm trying to filter out the Re: in front of mails and am getting
problems. The following recipie wont work:
:0 f
* ^Subject: [rR][eE]\:*\/.*
| formail -I "Subject: $MATCH"
It leaves the ':' in the subject. What is wrong here is the '\:*'
not matching on to the colon and the colon gets sucked into the $MATCH.
Or is the '\:*' getting sucked into the '\/.*' as one regex that goes into
the MATCH variable. It's quite anoying because '\:\/.*' works just fine
and the colon gets taken out and all I'm lef with is the subject. Can
anyone help?
1) Force the first character of the match to be a non-colon.
2) Remember: procmail does case-insensitive matching by default.
3) Why are you escaping the colon?
4) Do you really want to change a subject of "Regarding your letter" into
"garding your letter"? I'd suggest you require at least one colon,
possibly with spaces in front of it.
:0f
* ^Subject: *re *:+\/[^:].*
|formail -I"Subject: $MATCH"
Make sense?
Philip Guenther