Thanx for all your help. It works now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Professional Software Engineering"
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To: <procmail-users(_at_)procmail(_dot_)org>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: procmail not matching
At 11:27 2002-06-08 -0700, Jim Gifford did say:
Here is the To line from the Actual E-mail.
To: giffordj(_at_)linkline(_dot_)com, gifford_jim(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com
procmail: No match on "^To: *gifford_jim(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com"
Carefully evaluate the expression: '*' is "zero or more of the preceeding
character. So:
To:gifford_jim(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com
To: gifford_jim(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com
To: gifford_jim(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com
all would match. However,
To: giffordj(_at_)linkline(_dot_)com,
gifford_jim(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com
would not, because that "giffordj(_at_)linkline(_dot_)com," bit ain't
comprised of
spaces.
Instead, use:
* ^TO_someaddress(_at_)domain\(_dot_)tld
or, if you must:
* ^To:.*\<someaddress(_at_)domain\(_dot_)tld
('\<' is a word-delimiter, NOT a literal bracket)
'.' is the wildcard for "any character".
[snip]
Uh, sorry, looks like lotsa old message text, and I'm not into re-reading
list posts. The above addresses your matching problem. In fact, I'm
fairly certain it was pointed out in a previous response.
You should realize as well that when there are multiple recipients to a
single message (which in your case, will be separately retrieved copies of
same), your FIRST match will catch them BOTH. Also, BCCs will prove to be
your bane. Commit the procmail mantra to memory: "Procmail is not an
MTA". There are kludges for this, but they generally require you to be
administering the MTA so that you can insert additional headers. Your
fetchmail (a separate utility unrelated to procmail insofar as support
goes) config may has some mechanism for you to insert an identifier for
the
account which you retrieved the message from.
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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