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Re: Printing contents of Subject-header

1999-07-26 17:23:04
Era recommended code to Bert that included this line:

| >     * ^TO_remove_mail(_at_)mysite\(_dot_)net

and Bert asked,

| An additional question: where is the backspace "\" for in the e-mail
| address? Should this be a common practice in all the addresses I use
| in my Procmail scripts?

It is to tell procmail's regexp matcher to take the period as a literal
period and not in its magic sense, where it can match any single character
except a newline.  If you want to test specifically for a period, you
should escape it with a backslash.

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