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Re: Why did it miss?

2002-07-30 07:43:22
Martin McCarthy skribis:
<p align="Center"><i><font size="-2" color="#ffffff">Under Bill
s.1618 TITLE     III passed by the 105th US Congress this letter
cannot be<br>

Here is the recipe which I would have thought would catch the above:

0B:
* (section|bill).*(1618|301)
/var/mail/junk

Yet, it got through. Am I missing something incredibly obvious?

I'd guess that it is one of those things that is only obvious when you
know it.  My guess is that the mail contains an encoded version of the
text that you quoted and your mail client is decoding it before
showing it to you.  So the mail doesn't actually contain that text,
and hence procmail doesn't catch it.

Of course, there are other possibilities which are better considered
if you provide the section of your verbose procmail log which shows
what is happening when (and if) that recipe is being checked.

Or there was a linefeed somewhere between bill and 1618,
or the 1's were l's (the ones were els). Or there were
not enough rights on /var/mail/junk. Or etc.
Check the verbose log!

-- 
Affijn, Ruud

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