At 15:59 2000-10-25 -0700, holtzm(_at_)primenet(_dot_)com wrote:
Tried this filter with no luck.
:0:
* !^TO_holtzm(_at_)primenet(_dot_)com
/home/holtzm/mail/spambox
Can someone tell me what I'm missing? Thanks in advance.
Perhaps you could:
A. enable verbose logging (verbose=ON)
B. excerpt what is in the log for the area around this filter
C. simply describe what the filter appears to be doing (catching
messages you think it shouldn't, not catching messages you
think it should, or doing absolutely nothing at all).
D. provide the headers from a sample message which you THINK should
have been filtered, but was not.
E. Keep in mind that the order in which this filter appears in
relation to other filters can have a distinct impact.
Note that performing these actions and contemplating them in solitude
before posting them to the list will often lead to divine enlightenment.
Two obvious possibilities immediatley jump to mind:
1. you may not have write permissions to /home/holtzm/mail (or the
dir does not exist). (BTW, using something relative to your
homedir, or using $MAILDIR directly is generally easier to
manage, esp. when it comes time to relocate the filters to
a new account.)
2. ^TO_ matches a variety of headers -- including X-Envelope-To:
and Apparently-To (among others) -- i.e. BCC's, where your
server identifies them on reception. If these elements exist
in your message headers, you can expect this (due to the
inverted condition), to be skipping those messages. No
surprise there.
From the manpage, ^TO_ expands to:
(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope
|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)
(your verbose log would say as much as well)
Not that it matters much for the purposes of your matching or not in this
case, but you should get in the habit of escaping the dot in the hostname
portion (and in fact, any dots you expect to match AS dots):
primenet\.com
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Post Box 2395 / San Rafael, CA 94912-2395
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