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Re: Mailing list sorting recipe

1997-10-06 12:57:20
Louis-David Mitterrand <mito(_at_)aparima(_dot_)com> writes:
Recently on the list I came across a recipe that sorts mailing lists
into separate folders AND guarantees that these folders will be
lowercase. My previous recipe used 'tr' to that end:
...
But the new recipe (by Phillip Guenter?) does away completely with
external programs:

That's "Philip Guenther".  (And to all the people who seem to be
convinced otherwise (not just you): there really is only one ell in my
first name.)


:0
* $ ^TO_\/$LISTS
* $ LISTS ?? ()\/$\MATCH
$MATCH

The problem is it dosen't work for me, for example my logfile says:

procmail: Assigning "LISTS=(mutt|procmail|zsh|linux-laptop|vim|kaffe|guavac|ly
nx-dev|java-linux|lftp|linux-kernel|djb-qmail)"
procmail: Assigning "MATCH="
procmail: Matched "linux-kernel"
procmail: Match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparentl
y(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)\/(mutt|procmail|zsh|linux-laptop|vim|kaf
fe|guavac|lynx-dev|java-linux|lftp|linux-kernel|djb-qmail)"
procmail: No match on "\/linux-kernel"
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why does procmail take the fence operator as part of the regexp? Did I

Because it's part of what the regexp engine works with.  Also, it's not
really an operator like ?, *, and +, as it doesn't operate on anything
else, but rather it's just considered a token, similar to ^, $, etc.


miss something important in the example that was posted.

What version of procmail are you running?  The following *might* work:

        :0
        * $ ^TO_\/$LISTS
        {
            M = $MATCH
            :0
            * $ LISTS ?? ()\/$\M
            $MATCH
        }

If that actually works, then you should upgrade your procmail to 3.11pre4
or later.


Philip Guenther

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