Two responses in one. Thanks very much, folks.
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, era eriksson wrote (excerpted):
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:58:17 -0500 (EST),
Paul O Bartlett <pobart(_at_)access(_dot_)digex(_dot_)net> wrote:
> there are explanations of the macros FROMDAEMON and FROMMAILER with no
> internal underscores in the name. However, in the examples in the
Sounds to me like the person who installed the man pages fouled up.
[...]
In my recipes I do use the underscore form. They seem to work just
fine. But in my post, I just didn't put in the carets, which are
there.
> [about occasional messages showing up in a folder which
> [is normally for administrative mail]
Just save those messages to a file and run them again. Or pipe
straight from your mail reader to Procmail, that's quicker. [...]
Good suggestion. I am using Pine, and I can pipe it directly back
through procmail after I turn on verbose logging (presuming I remember
this suggestion, of course :-)
There have been reports of addresses which match ^FROM_MAILER by
accident but I don't recall any such cases right now. Are the
mismatches always from the same account?)
Not that I recall, but I haven't really paid close attention.
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Stan Ryckman wrote (excerpted):
So it could be not the email address which triggers the false match,
but the comments field (which anyone can pretty much set to anything
they want to with most email clients).
Good point. I'll try to remember that one, too. In a case like
this, of unsolicited email, it's a little hard to tell a sender in
advance not to put this or that in the comments field of From:.
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