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Re: assign a unique ID to each incoming email?

1999-04-08 01:23:29
Mathias Koerber wrote:

# check if the mail already has a TICKET in its subject
PREFIX="S-ABUSE"
:0 Whc
* ^Subject:.*\[${PREFIX}-\/[0-9][^]]+.*

You'll need a "$" after the initial asterisk in the condition line
(* $ ^Subject:...), otherwise procmail tries to match the literal
string "${PREFIX}" literally and doesn't use the content of the
variable:

procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*\[${PREFIX}-\/[0-9][^]]+.*"

/HW