At 08:12 AM 8/7/98 -0700, Andrew Edelstein wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 01:21:24AM -0400, A. Lester Buck III wrote:
I have a long .procmailrc that filters my mail into 68 different
folders. Almost all the filters work just great. But one filter
is driving me nuts because it simply ignores all filtering.
I was wondering if anyone has a idea why this might be happening.
Here are the two filters that are trying, unsuccessfully, to save
all mail from Lugo into the "lugo" folder:
<snip>
:0
* <blugo(_at_)wise(_dot_)com>
Mail/lugo/.
Change your search pattern to:
* ^From(_dot_)*blugo(_at_)wise(_dot_)com
I couldn't see it before, but I just realized...
* <blugo(_at_)wise(_dot_)com>
is taken as the "size is less than" test. That explains the
"skipped message" since a number was expected after "<".
To get what the original poster wanted (which is ANY header, not From.*)
he can use the protecting string "()"; i.e.:
* ()<blugo(_at_)wise(_dot_)com>
or, to match the probable original intent:
* ()<blugo(_at_)wise\(_dot_)com>
with a literal period rather than a wildcard period.
Cheers,
Stan