On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 08:51:57PM +0100,
michael(_dot_)renner(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de wrote:
Why the [: ] ?
I saw it in the procmailex manpage:
* ^From[ :].*print-server
This would be because messages in mbox format (and posibbly others?) will have
two "From" headers, one that looks like "From
address(_dot_)that(_dot_)sent(_dot_)message(_at_)sending(_dot_)host(_dot_)tld
date" (usuaully denoted in
documentation as as the "From_ header") and one that looks like "From: User
Name as formatted by sender's mua" (denoted as "From:") The format of From:
can vary (Usually something like "Real Name <address(_at_)host(_dot_)tld>"),
but always
has the colon and space.)
That regexp would match both. Since you're looking at the subject, which there
should be only one, you don't need the [ :], you can just do "^Subject: ADV"
(someone correct me if my assesment is off. As someone else said earlier in
the month, I'm writting this to test my own assumptions, to learn.)
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