On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:22:35 -0500 (CDT), dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com
(David W. Tamkin) wrote:
Thomas Witt asked,
| How do I set up a OR-Condition, f.E.
:0:
* ^Subject:.*surfing|^From:(.*\>?surfing(_at_)mailinglist\(_dot_)org
surfing
Watch out here, there's a closing paren missing. Also I'd use \<
instead of \> -- and why not do the same check on the Subject, like
this:
*
^Subject:(.*\<)?surfing\>|^From:(.*\<)?surfing(_at_)mailinglist\(_dot_)org\>
This is probably over-cautious but if you really want to do it "right"
you should try to minimize false matches wherever you can.
Other kinds of ORing are more complicated, as we've discussed in
the past on this list, but when you are checking the same search
area for a match to either of two patterns (or to any of three or
more patterns), just alternate them with unescaped pipe symbols.
At the risk of stating the evident, the FAQ has a brief discussion of
this, including ORing by scORing. ;-)
<http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/mini-faq.html>
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