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Re: Problem with spam detection/deletion

2001-01-30 19:05:17
At 17:00 2001-01-30 -0700, Jim McMaster wrote:

[chomp!]

VERBOSE=1
:0 H:$MAILDIR/trash/.lock
*^$trash_header
| /home/mcmaster/bin/rcvstore -nounseen +trash
VERBOSE=0
--------------------------------------------------------

Finally, here is the log file:
--------------------------------------------------------
procmail: [8831] Tue Jan 30 16:50:23 2001
procmail: No match on "^$trash_header"

Can anyone tell me why there is no match on $trash_header?  I suspect I am
being stupid, but cannot see the problem.

Two things:

1. What is trash_header set to? Nowhere in your post do you indicate as much, and given this is the one line you're having a problem with, that seems to be a major omission. To expect people to head off onto the web to research the spam filter you're using in order to determine this basic aspect of your problem is a bit much (seeing as the URL in question isn't even the text of the script).

2. ^$ is a sweet regexp - empty line. perhaps you forgot to include the $ flag which would ensure that it is evaluated via sh substitution before being parsed as a regexp:

* $ ^$trash_header


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