On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Antoinette Green wrote:
Mail was down for a couple of days so any responses to my plea for help never
made it so I'm resending.
problem ( I think ) is:
filters in rcfile aren't working.
I can run procmail from the command line and the message I pipe in goes to
the
default file. I have set up 3 different receipes to redirect mail and none
work. To test whether or not my expression in the rcfile is valid I'm using
egrep at the bourne shell command line, ie, egrep "^From:.A"
/var/mail/agreen.
If you write ^From:.A, you'll match anything that at the beginning of a
line (^) has From: followed by any *ONE* letter, followed by an A. So
From: Alexander
From: Antoinette
From:pAhemm
will match your recipe, whereas
From: Alexander
From: kAntoinetta
From: Green, Antoinette
From: Alex
BlaBlaBla
won't match. If you want to match any amount of occurances you have to
use *, which will match any occurance of the preceding "letter". So,
to match any amount of hits of anything, you have to use .* (dot star).
If you want to match any mail sent from yourself, something like this
should do the trick:
^From:(_dot_)*green(_dot_)*(_at_)(_dot_)*xerox\(_dot_)com(_dot_)*
See man grep, section "REGULAR EXPRESSIONS".
Alexander Skwar
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