Re: Better Recipe?

On 2001.07.24 19:21 Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>     This from one of my users:
>
>     ----------
>
>     Hey Ash,
>
>     Can you help me and optimize my procmail rc file?  Check it out,
> it's getting kinda long and there has to be a better way to do that kind
> of stuff.  What do you think?
>
>     .procmailrc
>
>     FORMAIL = "/usr/bin/formail"
>     TAG = ""
>     to_ = '^((Apparently-)?To|Cc):(.*\<)?'
>
>
>     :0
>     *$ $to_()magick-user(_at_)imagemagick(_dot_)org
>     {
>         TAG = "[IMagick]"
>     }
>
>     :0E
>     *$ $to_()imap(_at_)u(_dot_)washington(_dot_)edu
>     {
>         TAG = "[IMAP]"
>     }
>
>     :0E
>     *$ $to_()info-cvs(_at_)gnu(_dot_)org
>     {
>         TAG = "[InfoCVS]"
>     }
>
> ----------
>
>     I snipped this, it really *IS* long - and all he's doing is matching
> mailing lists and inserting the tag on the subject line.  And as he
> said, the file is long - way long.  So, is there a better way to do
> this?
>
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Have you tried pgen--an m4 processor to take a procmail.m4 and produce a
.procmailrc.  For simple, but repetitive stuff, it makes things easier to
maintain.

You can find it at:

http://www.myrddin.demon.co.uk/dist/

jmc
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