At 13:36 2004-02-05 +1100, Marvin Pierce wrote:
For some reason, the list seems to be filtering my recipe because it
contains, the sex medication word that begins with the letter v.
Between Monday and now, I see only two messages sitting for administrator
action, and both were flagged because they contained viruses.
Trying again with a modification:
It'd really help if you indicated what that modification is. I might guess
that you've replaces the continuation letters with underscores, but you're
asking me to make such an assumption.
Recipe #2) Filters body for select words and sends to mbox spam folder:
:0 B:
* MS Customer
* CD Government
* v_____
* V_____
As per the procmailrc manpage, procmail is not CASE SENSITIVE unless you
direct a recipe to be so (and you are not), so having different casings of
a string is a waste of cycles.
* v|_|_|_|_|_
Those | are OR markers. I rather doubt this is what you want, esp since
the last 5 characters are all the same.
* V_?_?_?_?_?
Those ? are regexp for "zero or one of the previous expression or character"
I'm going to guess that you have a problem wherein the word "viagra"
appears in spam, and sometimes it's interspersed with separator characters
of some sort. If so, the following might be a better replacement to all
FOUR of your preceeding "viagra" specific conditions:
* v\>?i\>?a\>?g\>?r\>a
which will match viagra as a word, or with optional interspersed wordbreak
(basically, non-letter/number) characters - punctuation and the like. Set
up a sandbox and throw a bunch of your spam at it.
* popular medications
This condition by itself will of course match _THIS_ message (as well as
the copy of your own message sent back to you by the list)
$MAILDIR/spam
You do realize that *ALL* of the conditions must be matched in order for
this recipe to trigger?
You might want to spend some time browsing Nancy McGough's Procmail
Quickstart (conveniently linked from the procmail homepage).
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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